Download torrent The Cartographic Eye : How Explorers Saw Australia
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The Cartographic Eye : How Explorers Saw Australia.cSimon Ryan
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Author: Simon Ryan
Page Count: 248 pages
Published Date: 02 Feb 2015
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publication Country: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780521571128
File size: 41 Mb
Download Link: The Cartographic Eye How Explorers Saw Australia
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This book is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. It is an innovative investigation of the presumptions, aesthetics, and politics of Australian explorers' texts that looks at the journals of John Oxley, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Sturt, and Ludwig Leichhardt and shows that they are not the simple, unadorned observations the authors would have us believe, but, rather, complex networks of tropes. The book argues that contacts with Aborigines and the 'virgin' land are occasions of discursive contest, and that, however much explorers construct themselves as monarchs of all they survey, this monarchy is not absolute. This book scrutinises and undermines the scientific and literary methodology of exploration.
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The Cartographic Eye : How Explorers Saw Australia.cSimon Ryan
Author: Simon Ryan
Page Count: 248 pages
Published Date: 02 Feb 2015
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publication Country: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780521571128
File size: 41 Mb
Download Link: The Cartographic Eye How Explorers Saw Australia
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This book is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. It is an innovative investigation of the presumptions, aesthetics, and politics of Australian explorers' texts that looks at the journals of John Oxley, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Sturt, and Ludwig Leichhardt and shows that they are not the simple, unadorned observations the authors would have us believe, but, rather, complex networks of tropes. The book argues that contacts with Aborigines and the 'virgin' land are occasions of discursive contest, and that, however much explorers construct themselves as monarchs of all they survey, this monarchy is not absolute. This book scrutinises and undermines the scientific and literary methodology of exploration.
Read online The Cartographic Eye : How Explorers Saw Australia Buy and read online The Cartographic Eye : How Explorers Saw Australia Download The Cartographic Eye : How Explorers Saw Australia ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook The Cartographic Eye : How Explorers Saw Australia