Anne Whiston Spirn Yale University Press, 1998 Introduction Prologue: The Yellowwood and the Forgotten Creek Part One 'Nature's Infinite Book': The Language of Landscape 1. Dwelling and Tongue: The Language of Landscape Landscape Is Language Landscape Is Meaningful and Expressive Language Has Consequences 2. Survival and Imagination: Reading and Telling the Meanings of Landscape Landscape Contested, Celebrated, Reclaimed: Slesvig and the Danish Heath Meanings: Inherent, Invented, Ambiguous Landscape Dialogues: Reading and Responding 3. Artful Telling, Deep Reading: The Literature of Landscape The Poetry of Worship, Conquest, and Defense: Mont Saint-Michel Landscape Stories: Folklore, Myth, Tragedy, Comedy, Epic, Poetry Landscape Genre: Of Worship, Memory, Play, Movement and Meeting, Production and Waste, Home and Community Artful Telling, Deep Reading: A Literature of Lived Life Part Two 'Without Form, and Void,' to 'Heaven and Earth': Landscape Composition 4. Is a Leaf Like a Noun, Growing Like a Verb?: Elements of Landscape and Language Process: Actions and Pattern of Events Matter: Sensual and Dynamic Form: Shape and Structure Performance Space: Places of Need and Use The Nature of Material, Form, Process, and Performance: Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesins 5. Dynamic Weaving, Fabric of Stories: Shaping Landscape Context Mountain, Sea, River, Forest: Japan's Deep Context Elemental Landscapes: Tree, River, Cloud, Mountain, Human, Bird Dialogues in Context: Place Sustaining the Fabric of Place: Japan 6. Rules of Context: Landscape Grammar Principles of Grammar: Scale and Tense, Modifying and Agreeing, Order Following and Breaking the Rules Part Three Using the Language of Landscape: Pragmatics, Poetics, and Polemics 7. Shaping: Pragmatics of Landscape Expression Creating a Frame for Stability and Serendipity: Marnas Authors' Sources: Reproduction, Adaptation, Abstraction, Invention Thinking, Building, Caring Weaving a Fabric 8. A Rose Is Rarely Just a Rose: Poetics of Landscape Figures of Speech and Rhetoric: Emphasis, Anomaly, Metaphor, Paradox, Irony, Address Expressive Context: Euphony, Cacophony, Mood, Mystery Magic Kingdoms: Disney's Worlds 9. Polemical Landscapes Remembering, Recreating, Destroying the Past: Berlin Polemical Dialogues: Nature, History, Function, Art, Power Transcending Polemics: Cultivating Paradox Epilogue. Reimagining Mill Creek To Order the Book For Photographs 
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