HUM 3394: Representations of Place and Space

Part One: Introduction: Theory and History of Representation, Place, and Space

Terms

Place

• Where Are You?
• Some Answers to "Where Are You?"
  
  
• What kind of places are these:
  • Cultural Places
    • Cultural Places - Examples
  • Harry Potter movies
  • Lord of the Rings movies
  • Thomas Kinkade images - or here or here
    
    
• Place Exercises
  • Layers of Place
  • Mapping Place
  • Sense of Place
  • Place Terms
• Uses of the Concept of Place
  • Quotations on Place
  • B. Janz, "Whistler's Fog and the Aesthetics of Place" (or for the published version, go here) - paper on the uses of place
• Theoretical Approaches to Place

Representation

• Representation Exercise
• A Few Examples of Representation
• Definition of Representation and Related Terms
• Some philosophers on representation
• Representation: Mimesis (the rose)
  • Representing the Rose 1
  • Representing the Rose 2
  • Representing the Rose 3
  • Representing the Rose 4
  • Representing the Rose 5
  • Representing the Rose 6
  • Representing the Rose 7
  • Representing the Rose 8
  • The Rose as Symbol
• What Does This Mean for Representing Place and Space?

Readings

• History of Place and Space: Michael Curry's article
• Jeffrey Malpas, "The Obscurity of Place" in Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography
• Yi-Fu Tuan and Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience

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