John Wylie
Autore di Landscape
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John Wylie is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources at the University of Exeter.
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If the reader is thinking: "I didn't even know Landscape Studies was a thing," they are not alone. I had no idea either, and this is definitely not my area of study. I picked up Wylie's Landscape while working on a paper for my children's literature masters, on the use and significance of place and landscape in two children's novels - Eilís Dillon's The Island of Ghosts and Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Although in the end I didn't find it very germane to my topic - I ended up using the idea of the topos put forward in Jane Suzanne Carroll's excellent Landscape in Children's Literature - I am glad to have read it. Reviewing it now, after a number of years have elapsed, I struggle to call to mind some of the specifics of Wylie's analysis - I was aided in the writing by the copious notes I took at the time - but I do recall finding it useful, largely because it expanded my understanding of the complexities involved in how we perceive the world. It is a highly academic book - were it not for that paper, I would likely never have picked it up - so I would probably only recommend it to scholars with a strong interest in the subject.… (altro)