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15 The Messon of the Island of Lesbos
Toponym as Evidence in the History of Ideas, or Introduction to Ten Poems from The Name of Sappho’s Daughter
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Jesper Svenbro
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Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents vii
- Figures xi
- Acknowledgments xvii
- Prologue xix
- Introduction 3
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Landscape, Art, and Ecology
- From Nature? The Critical Landscapes of Poussin and Cézanne 23
- Newfoundland Painting and the Metaphysics of Light 44
- Placing Here: Finlay, Fulton, and Skelton and the Formation of the British School of Aesthetic Chorography 55
- The “Art of Walking” according to the Puritans 71
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The Hamish Fulton Album
- Fulton’s Walks: Between Documentation and Experience 87
- Hamish Fulton Interview 92
- Walking with Hamish Fulton into the Vanishing Point vers le Canada 105
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The Anthropocene, Ruins, and Nuclear Exposure
- Placing the Anthropocene 117
- A Haunt of Jackals: Towards a Critical Topography of Ruins 129
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Borders and Trauma
- Conversations on Walls 153
- Manto’s Madmen: Partition and Psychoanalytic Displacement in “Toba Tek Singh” 176
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Memory and the Keeping Place
- The Darkest Tapestry: Indian Residential School Memorialization and the Model for a “Keeping Place” in the Qu’Appelle Valley 193
- The Community for Which the Land Longs 213
- Ai Weiwei’s Memory Work at Lesbos, Greece 231
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Geopoetics
- The Messon of the Island of Lesbos 249
- Epilogue 273
- Postscript 283
- Contributors 289
- Index 297
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents vii
- Figures xi
- Acknowledgments xvii
- Prologue xix
- Introduction 3
-
Landscape, Art, and Ecology
- From Nature? The Critical Landscapes of Poussin and Cézanne 23
- Newfoundland Painting and the Metaphysics of Light 44
- Placing Here: Finlay, Fulton, and Skelton and the Formation of the British School of Aesthetic Chorography 55
- The “Art of Walking” according to the Puritans 71
-
The Hamish Fulton Album
- Fulton’s Walks: Between Documentation and Experience 87
- Hamish Fulton Interview 92
- Walking with Hamish Fulton into the Vanishing Point vers le Canada 105
-
The Anthropocene, Ruins, and Nuclear Exposure
- Placing the Anthropocene 117
- A Haunt of Jackals: Towards a Critical Topography of Ruins 129
-
Borders and Trauma
- Conversations on Walls 153
- Manto’s Madmen: Partition and Psychoanalytic Displacement in “Toba Tek Singh” 176
-
Memory and the Keeping Place
- The Darkest Tapestry: Indian Residential School Memorialization and the Model for a “Keeping Place” in the Qu’Appelle Valley 193
- The Community for Which the Land Longs 213
- Ai Weiwei’s Memory Work at Lesbos, Greece 231
-
Geopoetics
- The Messon of the Island of Lesbos 249
- Epilogue 273
- Postscript 283
- Contributors 289
- Index 297