Symbolic Landscapes

Part I: Place-Worlds Introduction I: The Problematic of Grounding the Significance of Symbolic Landscapes; Gary Backhaus The Road to Indian Wells: Symbolic Landscapes in the California Desert; Alex Zukas Wilderness as Axis Mundi: Spiritual Journey on the Appalachian Trail; Kip Redick Pu'u Kohola: Spatial Genealogy of a Hawaiian Symbolic Landscape; RDK Herman Mythological Landscape and Landscape of Myth: Circulating Visions of Pre-Christian Athos; Veronica della Dora At Home on the Midway: Carnival Conventions and Yard Space in Gibsonton, Florida; Charlie Hailey Crossing the Verge: Roadside Memorials-Perth Western Australia; Dennis Wood Life on 'The Avenue': An Allegory of the Street in Early Twenty-First-Century Suburban America; John Srygley Metaphor, Environmental Receptivity, and Architectural Design; Brook Muller Part II: Geographical Sensibilities in the Arts Introduction II: An Apology Concerning the Importance of the Geography of Imagination; Gary Backhaus Severence of Sovereignty: Cartographic Possession in Map Cartouches and Atlas Frontispieces of Early Modern Europe; Christine Petto Symbolism and the Interaction of the Real and the Ideal: Scenery in Early-Modern Netherlandish Graphic Art; Anat Gilboa Traversing One's Space: Photography and the Feminine; Panizza Allmark Symbolizing the Midwest: The Horizon in the Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh; Nannette Brewer The Philadelphia Flower Show and its Dangerous Sensibilities; Gary Backhaus Gardening ata Japanese Garden; John Murungi Symbolic Space, Memory, Narrative, Writing; Arndt Niebisch Vienna's Musical Deathscape; Linda Ardito Crusoe's Island and the Human Estate: Defoe's Existential Geography; Dennis Skocz Selected Bibliography Index About the Contributors