Representing People and Landscapes
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This page is intended to help you find an appropriate related text for Module C: Representing People and Places. Please read the pointers about how to choose a related text here [http://aghsdiscovery.weebly.com/what-type-of-related-text.html] at the Discovery website. If you are studying a travelogue in class, it's a good idea to choose a different type of interaction between people and landscapes than the ones depicted in your set texts. This gives you more opportunity to discuss the different types of relationships between people and landscapes without being side tracked into focusing on the representation of travel.
The Board of Studies says: "In this elective, students explore and evaluate various representations of people and landscapes in their prescribed text and other related texts of their own choosing. They consider the ways in which texts represent the relationship between the lives of individuals or groups and real, remembered or imagined landscapes. Students analyse representations of people’s experience of particular landscapes and their significance for the individual or society more broadly. In their responding and composing, students develop their understanding of how the relationship between various textual forms, media of production and language choices influences and shapes meaning." Source: BOSTES: English Stage 6 Prescriptions. |
This suggests that there are three different types of landscapes you should consider:
the contemporary discipline of Cultural Studies views landscapes as dynamic spaces formed through human interactions. This means that the landscape cannot be studied alone but only in tandem with the way people use it. "For people the environment exists through interacting with it. As such, the environment is not a passive “out there” condition, but something that everyone participates in creating and defining. Rather than a simple internal– external relationship between people and the environment, there is a complex and dynamic exchange in which the environment informs human knowledge, and human experiences shape the way by which the environment is known." (People, Place and Space Reader, Introduction to section 2 at http://peopleplacespace.org/toc/section-2/).
Within the discourse of English, this includes the essential human/landscape interaction, but also the imaginary landscape created through the composer's relationship with the responder. Another tangent to explore is how different mediums represent landscapes in different ways, resulting in different experiences for the responder.
This concept is explored in Verve Sarapic's essay Landscape: the problem of representation [http://www.eki.ee/km/place/pdf/KP2_12sarapik.pdf]:
"...we can compare the different ways of representation, not landscape and reality. Music and literature can surround us, they can fill the space until the listener or the reader dissolves in the work. A painting is a surface, it is like a skin, which remains between us and the depicted object and which can disappear only for a moment. Maybe this is the main problem of representing space – the most overwhelming impressions appear only then, when the resistance of the surface disappears. All authors are inspired by their belief in the omnipotence of their future works. For a painting this means a metamorphosis – the frames disappear and we are surrounded by the represented environment. The relationship between the work and the spectator is actually a battle, where the secret passion of the author is to engulf the spectator with his work. The stories of "falling in love" with the work and "going into the picture" stem from the same passion."
From a postmodern perspective, "[w]ords about landscape do not mirror the world in any objective sense. Nothing is revealed except the rhetoric of landscape representation: discourses, texts and metaphors that ricochet through time and space interpenetrating and influencing each other and revealing more about themselves and their human creators than about the world being represented." (Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text, and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape Review by: Robert A. Rundstrom in Geographical Review Vol. 83, No. 2 (Apr., 1993), pp. 205-207)
- Real landscapes - actual places, either natural (mountains, forests, lakes etc) or urban (cities, villages), lived in or visited by an individual or group of people
- Remembered landscapes - the landscapes that exist only in our memories, usually as idealised, nostalgic places which no longer exist (or never existed at all) but sometimes also sites of trauma (eg Auschwitz)
- Imagined landscapes - fictional landscapes, devised either as entertainment or for a political purpose (eg. utopias, dystopias or science fiction)
the contemporary discipline of Cultural Studies views landscapes as dynamic spaces formed through human interactions. This means that the landscape cannot be studied alone but only in tandem with the way people use it. "For people the environment exists through interacting with it. As such, the environment is not a passive “out there” condition, but something that everyone participates in creating and defining. Rather than a simple internal– external relationship between people and the environment, there is a complex and dynamic exchange in which the environment informs human knowledge, and human experiences shape the way by which the environment is known." (People, Place and Space Reader, Introduction to section 2 at http://peopleplacespace.org/toc/section-2/).
Within the discourse of English, this includes the essential human/landscape interaction, but also the imaginary landscape created through the composer's relationship with the responder. Another tangent to explore is how different mediums represent landscapes in different ways, resulting in different experiences for the responder.
This concept is explored in Verve Sarapic's essay Landscape: the problem of representation [http://www.eki.ee/km/place/pdf/KP2_12sarapik.pdf]:
"...we can compare the different ways of representation, not landscape and reality. Music and literature can surround us, they can fill the space until the listener or the reader dissolves in the work. A painting is a surface, it is like a skin, which remains between us and the depicted object and which can disappear only for a moment. Maybe this is the main problem of representing space – the most overwhelming impressions appear only then, when the resistance of the surface disappears. All authors are inspired by their belief in the omnipotence of their future works. For a painting this means a metamorphosis – the frames disappear and we are surrounded by the represented environment. The relationship between the work and the spectator is actually a battle, where the secret passion of the author is to engulf the spectator with his work. The stories of "falling in love" with the work and "going into the picture" stem from the same passion."
From a postmodern perspective, "[w]ords about landscape do not mirror the world in any objective sense. Nothing is revealed except the rhetoric of landscape representation: discourses, texts and metaphors that ricochet through time and space interpenetrating and influencing each other and revealing more about themselves and their human creators than about the world being represented." (Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text, and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape Review by: Robert A. Rundstrom in Geographical Review Vol. 83, No. 2 (Apr., 1993), pp. 205-207)
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Some quick introductory resources to this topic include:
Jeffrey Hopkins' Module C: Representing People and Landscapes [http://slideplayer.com/slide/5278643/] People and Landscapes [http://peoplelandscapes.weebly.com/] Introductions to Art of Travel Ravenswood's Art of Travel Pintrest Page [https://www.pinterest.com/ravenswoodeng/the-art-of-travel/] Western Sydney Tutors [http://www.westernsydneytutors.com/blog/] (scroll down for it) Practice Tasks Orange HS [http://www.orange-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/documents/8281168/8287441/12EngWk2T3.pdf] |
Module C: Related Texts
Advertisements
Many advertisements use landscapes to market a particular image - think of car ads which represent a powerful masculine image of the car conquering the savage wilderness. If you use an advertisement for Extension English make sure that it has a strong subtext (esp. if you can relate it to a broader concept such as gender), unusual symbolism and be sure to treat it like a film, analysing the soundtrack, cinematography and script.
For interesting advertisements, look at The Gruen Transfer [http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/gruen/], an Australian panel show which anayses the advertsing process using current ads, or the archive of the Cannes Lions {http://www.canneslionsarchive.com/winners/], the Academy Awards of the advertising world.
For interesting advertisements, look at The Gruen Transfer [http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/gruen/], an Australian panel show which anayses the advertsing process using current ads, or the archive of the Cannes Lions {http://www.canneslionsarchive.com/winners/], the Academy Awards of the advertising world.
Artworks
If you are using artworks or photographs as a related text, make sure you read Verve Sarapic's essay Landscape: the problem of representation [http://www.eki.ee/km/place/pdf/KP2_12sarapik.pdf]. This will give you lots of ideas about how to analyse the relationship between viewers and landscapes. If you are dealing with art history or analysing artworks, make sure that you have the appropriate background ....
The Art Gallery of NSW has a curated list of European landscapes in the Making Nature study guide [http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Learning/docs/Online_Resources/Making_Nature_Ed_kit.pdf] . The notes discuss the artworks from an art perspective. You will need to decide exactly which interactions are taking place in these representations. Hannah Gadsby's Oz has an entire episode [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPGD30kkCno] comparing the way various artists have represented the Australian landscape. You could choose an artwork from the show or consider the episode as a video text. |
ORIENTALISM????
Some art movements worth exploring are:
Pre-raphaelites
Symbolists
Art Nouveau
Arts and Crafts Movement
Impressionists
Heidelburg School
Hudson River School
Some key artists are
J M W Turner
William Morris
Edward Byrne-Jones
Frida Khalo
drysdale
McCubbin
Streeton
Emily Carr
Prohart
John Ruskin was a leading Victorian Art Critic and champion of avant garde artists such as Turner (forerunner of impressionism) and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, both of whom represented the "Truth" of nature in their artwork. His essays had a lasting impact on English art history, bringing Romanticism into the mainstream and helping to drive Medievalism and Gothic Revivalist art and architecture. You could use Ruskin's commentaries to analyse the works above, or use his essays as texts on their own. His most influential works were Modern Painters [http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/depts/ruskinlib/Modern%20Painters#.pdf] and The Stones of Venice [ ] (mostly about architecture and renaissance artists, but includes a famous chapter on "The Nature of the Gothic" [https://ia800506.us.archive.org/9/items/natureofgothicch00rusk/natureofgothicch00rusk.pdf]).
Artist Profile (NF 700) is a Contemporary Art journal which highlights leading Australian artists. If you are artistically included have a look through the archives to find landscape artists, including:
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hobie porter issue 28
Cultural studies essays
ORIENTALISM????
It's always a great idea to use a theoretical essay as one of your related texts. This allows you to define concepts and arguments using an authoritative source and also to focus on the features of an academic essay (because you still have to analyse how meaning is communicated, not just what is being said about representation of people and landscapes). These will be quite difficult to digest, but remember, you don't need to understand everything being said if it is not your primary related text, and anything you discover can be used to analyse representation in your other texts.
Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13269.The_Poetics_of_Space] is an Architecture and Cultural Studies classic which examines the emotional spaces of homes, rooms and domestic furniture, revealing that architecture is made as much of experiences and memories as physical materials. the set of quotes [ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/graphics/grafica/space.html] gives you an idea of his key concepts. A short summary can be found here [http://culturalstudiesnow.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/gaston-bachelard-poetics-of-space.html] and here [http://culturalstudiesnow.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/gaston-bachelard-poetics-of-space_23.html]. Madeline Hettich has designed a book which embodies his ideas [https://www.behance.net/gallery/32294179/The-Poetics-of-Space] in simple black and white graphics. This book has been ordered for the school library.
Cultural Landscapes of Post-socialist Cities [http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/35328489?selectedversion=NBD42529753]. Chapter 2 discusses the political intentions and effects of urban landscapes. It is especially relevant to remembered landscapes. If you're a member of Sydney Uni library you may be able to get a copy of chapter 2 as it is not all on googlebooks.
People, Place and Space Reader edited by Jen Jack Gieseking & William Mangold, with Cindi Katz, Setha Low, & Susan Saegert [http://peopleplacespace.org/toc/] gives you free access to the introductions of each chapter. This is a good way to discover a wide range of current academic ideas about landscape.
The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology. Max Oelschaeger. (1991) This history of human interaction with the environment mourns humankind's "fall" from a primitive state into an exploitative agricultural and later technological civilisation. It has been an immensely influential book in many philosophical and alternative religious circles and may even be to blame for the rise of the paleo diet fad! Let Ms Carmyn know if you would like her to buy this book. Review: Good Reads [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/340463.The_Idea_of_Wilderness], Environment Review [http://cargocollective.com/EnvironmentReview/The-Idea-of-Wilderness-A-Review]
Rewriting Spatiality: The Construction of Space in the Pilbara by Britta Kuhlenbeck clarifies the concept of natural spaces in three ways: Firstspace, Geographical and administative spaces), Secondspace (the conceptual space of literature and film) and Thirdspace (space as a position of empowerment and resistance). Section two develops the concept of imaginary spaces through analysis of Winton's Dirt Music and Brooks' Japanese Story. It is a good example of how to analyse and write about landscape in literary texts, and can be used as a related text in it's own right, to introduce key theoretical concpets of place and identify, including the concept of non-space (disassociation with the landscape). The link above is to Goodlebooks. Let me know if you'd like me to buy the whole book for the library.
Helene Cixous is a poststructuralist feminist philosopher and literary critic whose work deals with the gendering of language as applied to the landscape of the female body. She writes in particularly dense intertextual language, but would lend some interesting perspectives if you are interested in how philosophy and feminism can be applied to language. See Ms Carmyn of you are intrigued by this theorist. You might also consider writing about an article that uses Cixous' ideas than the writing itself - Try I am spacious singing flesh: Gender in the Landscape [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237378376_I_am_spacious_singing_flesh_Cixous_Gender_in_the_Landscape_Landscape_Architecture_in_the_Feminine].
Michel Foucault's concept of the Panopticum [http://dm.ncl.ac.uk/courseblog/files/2011/03/michel-foucault-panopticism.pdf] has become a classic in Sociology studies. It depicts the perfect prison in which architecture is used to create a system where each prisoner conducts self-surveillance of their own actions - the ultimate way of disciplining the population using the urban landscape. In the current world of 24/7 surveillance, his theories have become ever-ever-meaningful - as discussed in Bart Simon's The Return of Panopticumism: Supervision, Subjection and the New Surveillance [http://surveillance-and-society.org/Articles3(1)/return.pdf].
It's always a great idea to use a theoretical essay as one of your related texts. This allows you to define concepts and arguments using an authoritative source and also to focus on the features of an academic essay (because you still have to analyse how meaning is communicated, not just what is being said about representation of people and landscapes). These will be quite difficult to digest, but remember, you don't need to understand everything being said if it is not your primary related text, and anything you discover can be used to analyse representation in your other texts.
Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13269.The_Poetics_of_Space] is an Architecture and Cultural Studies classic which examines the emotional spaces of homes, rooms and domestic furniture, revealing that architecture is made as much of experiences and memories as physical materials. the set of quotes [ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/graphics/grafica/space.html] gives you an idea of his key concepts. A short summary can be found here [http://culturalstudiesnow.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/gaston-bachelard-poetics-of-space.html] and here [http://culturalstudiesnow.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/gaston-bachelard-poetics-of-space_23.html]. Madeline Hettich has designed a book which embodies his ideas [https://www.behance.net/gallery/32294179/The-Poetics-of-Space] in simple black and white graphics. This book has been ordered for the school library.
Cultural Landscapes of Post-socialist Cities [http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/35328489?selectedversion=NBD42529753]. Chapter 2 discusses the political intentions and effects of urban landscapes. It is especially relevant to remembered landscapes. If you're a member of Sydney Uni library you may be able to get a copy of chapter 2 as it is not all on googlebooks.
People, Place and Space Reader edited by Jen Jack Gieseking & William Mangold, with Cindi Katz, Setha Low, & Susan Saegert [http://peopleplacespace.org/toc/] gives you free access to the introductions of each chapter. This is a good way to discover a wide range of current academic ideas about landscape.
The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology. Max Oelschaeger. (1991) This history of human interaction with the environment mourns humankind's "fall" from a primitive state into an exploitative agricultural and later technological civilisation. It has been an immensely influential book in many philosophical and alternative religious circles and may even be to blame for the rise of the paleo diet fad! Let Ms Carmyn know if you would like her to buy this book. Review: Good Reads [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/340463.The_Idea_of_Wilderness], Environment Review [http://cargocollective.com/EnvironmentReview/The-Idea-of-Wilderness-A-Review]
Rewriting Spatiality: The Construction of Space in the Pilbara by Britta Kuhlenbeck clarifies the concept of natural spaces in three ways: Firstspace, Geographical and administative spaces), Secondspace (the conceptual space of literature and film) and Thirdspace (space as a position of empowerment and resistance). Section two develops the concept of imaginary spaces through analysis of Winton's Dirt Music and Brooks' Japanese Story. It is a good example of how to analyse and write about landscape in literary texts, and can be used as a related text in it's own right, to introduce key theoretical concpets of place and identify, including the concept of non-space (disassociation with the landscape). The link above is to Goodlebooks. Let me know if you'd like me to buy the whole book for the library.
Helene Cixous is a poststructuralist feminist philosopher and literary critic whose work deals with the gendering of language as applied to the landscape of the female body. She writes in particularly dense intertextual language, but would lend some interesting perspectives if you are interested in how philosophy and feminism can be applied to language. See Ms Carmyn of you are intrigued by this theorist. You might also consider writing about an article that uses Cixous' ideas than the writing itself - Try I am spacious singing flesh: Gender in the Landscape [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237378376_I_am_spacious_singing_flesh_Cixous_Gender_in_the_Landscape_Landscape_Architecture_in_the_Feminine].
Michel Foucault's concept of the Panopticum [http://dm.ncl.ac.uk/courseblog/files/2011/03/michel-foucault-panopticism.pdf] has become a classic in Sociology studies. It depicts the perfect prison in which architecture is used to create a system where each prisoner conducts self-surveillance of their own actions - the ultimate way of disciplining the population using the urban landscape. In the current world of 24/7 surveillance, his theories have become ever-ever-meaningful - as discussed in Bart Simon's The Return of Panopticumism: Supervision, Subjection and the New Surveillance [http://surveillance-and-society.org/Articles3(1)/return.pdf].
Ecological essays
Transcendentalism was a C19th American philosophical movement that linked nature, spirituality and the role of the imagination. It was a highly influential movement and included many famous writers such as Herman Melville (Moby Dick) Nathaniel Hawthorne (the Scarlet Letter), Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass), Louisa May Alcott (Little Women series) and social reformers such as George Putnam (Unitarian minister) and Margaret Fuller (women's rights activist). The ideas of this group of intellectuals may be viewed as the forerunners of Deep Ecology. An overview of their ideas can be found at:
Emerson and Thoreau as American prophets of Eco-Wisdom [http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/home/ecotran.html]
Ralph Waldo Emerson [http://www.transcendentalists.com/emerson_essays.htm]
Walden. Henry David Thoreau [http://www.transcendentalists.com/walden.htm]
Critiques: The Idea of Wilderness [http://nupaub.fflch.usp.br/sites/nupaub.fflch.usp.br/files/The%20idea%20of%20Wilderness153.pdf]
Contemporary Ecological Perspectives
Val Plumwood . Being Prey [http://www.aislingmagazine.com/aislingmagazine/articles/TAM30/ValPlumwood.html] Takes an Eco-feminist perspective on the experience of a crocodile attack, arguing that it is important that humans are not the top predators in our ecosystem. See Ms Carmyn for the extended version of this essay. Other essays by Val Plumwood are available at ANU's The Eye of the Crocodile [http://press.anu.edu.au/titles/the-eye-of-the-crocodile/pdf-download/] . If you are interested in Philosophy you may also like to read Nature in the Active Voice. [http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-May-2009/plumwood.html#_edn1] which contextualises environmental philosophy within a contemporary framework.
No Fixed Address: Nomads and the Fate of the Planet, Quarterly Essay 24 [Robyn Davidson, 2006] [https://www.quarterlyessay.com/qe/24/conclusion/837] Looks at the defition of "nomad" in the C21st, and the ways that contemporary nomads interact with our planet.
Silent Winter
Emerson and Thoreau as American prophets of Eco-Wisdom [http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/home/ecotran.html]
Ralph Waldo Emerson [http://www.transcendentalists.com/emerson_essays.htm]
Walden. Henry David Thoreau [http://www.transcendentalists.com/walden.htm]
Critiques: The Idea of Wilderness [http://nupaub.fflch.usp.br/sites/nupaub.fflch.usp.br/files/The%20idea%20of%20Wilderness153.pdf]
Contemporary Ecological Perspectives
Val Plumwood . Being Prey [http://www.aislingmagazine.com/aislingmagazine/articles/TAM30/ValPlumwood.html] Takes an Eco-feminist perspective on the experience of a crocodile attack, arguing that it is important that humans are not the top predators in our ecosystem. See Ms Carmyn for the extended version of this essay. Other essays by Val Plumwood are available at ANU's The Eye of the Crocodile [http://press.anu.edu.au/titles/the-eye-of-the-crocodile/pdf-download/] . If you are interested in Philosophy you may also like to read Nature in the Active Voice. [http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-May-2009/plumwood.html#_edn1] which contextualises environmental philosophy within a contemporary framework.
No Fixed Address: Nomads and the Fate of the Planet, Quarterly Essay 24 [Robyn Davidson, 2006] [https://www.quarterlyessay.com/qe/24/conclusion/837] Looks at the defition of "nomad" in the C21st, and the ways that contemporary nomads interact with our planet.
Silent Winter
Films
The Back of Beyond, director John Heyer [documentary]
The Rooms, directors Paul Rowley & Tim Blue [short film, 2010] WATCH
The Participants, directors Paul Rowley & Tim Blue [short film, 2014] WATCH
Seaview, Directors Nicky Gogan & Paul Rowley [documentary, 2008] WATCH
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Director John Madden [film,2011]
We, the Masses, Director Eoghan Kidney [short film, 2011] TRAILER
Madagascar, Carnét de Voyage, Bastien Dubois [short anim. 2009] WATCH
Hide Your Smiling Faces, Director Daniel Patrick Carbone [film, 2013]
Looms, Funk Brothers production [short film, 2013] WATCH
The Big Blue (Luc Besson, 1988). In German this film is called "Intoxication with the Deep" which better depicts the protagonist's experience of being wedded to the ocean.
Kevin McCloud's Escape to the Wild (2015). [http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/kevin-mcclouds-escape-to-the-wild/] this series looks at families who have built off-grid homes far from civilisation. Episodes 2 and 4 are the best for an examination of sustainable living. Episode 1 is a great example of a family who thinks they are getting back to nature but are in fact colonising the Tongan landscape in much the same manner as the C18th-19th colonists.
Historical documents
Portal with links to texts, especially primary texts such as diaries and letters, about the Galapagas Islands [http://www.galapagos.to/TEXTS/INDEX.php#Darwin]
The Voyage of the Beagle [http://literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-voyage-of-the-beagle/] is Darwin's account of his paradigm-breaking journey around south America. The book was based on Darwin's Beagle Dairies [http://darwinbeagle.blogspot.com.au/] which can be found here. Audio excerpts can be found here [http://darwin-online.org.uk/BookoftheWeek.html]
Explorer's Diaries: Antarctica
Captain Robert Scott's diary [http://www.bl.uk/turning-the-pages/?id=12878b6a-36b9-44db-a940-365b21bfe524&type=book] final diary (when he died on the way back from the South Pole) is available as a fascimile (you can turn the pages with your mouse) and transcription from the British Library. Eyewitness to History [http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/scott.htm] has a page of extracts which celebrate the doomed heroism of his expedition.
Antarctic Diaries of the Heroic Era [http://www.heatherrossiter.com/antarctic-diaries-of-the-heroic-era.html] looks at the historical value of these diaries. You should be able to access this through the State Library.
Micheal Ashley's Antarctic Diary/blog on The Conversation [https://theconversation.com/the-antarctica-diaries-week-one-4843] gives an insider perspective on the pressures as well as the excitement of living at the 'edge of the world' in the C21st, with reference to a globalised travel culture and cross-disiplinary comparisons such as "It takes about as much money to keep a person in Antarctica as in an intensive care unit".
Travel Diaries of the Past
Diaries of Frank Hurley [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=mXeqiiWUQvoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false] Frank Hurley was a photographer and film maker who accompanied Mawson to Antarctica, photographed WW I and WWII and created documentaries about little known places in Melanesia.
An Anthology of Women's Travel Writing [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=81JxDbc2KeIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Tourists and Travellers: Women's Non-fiction writing about Scotland, 1770-1830 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=UP7OBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false] looks at the burgeoning tourist infrastructure in Scotland during the Romantic era, and analyses the travel writings of five significant women
Lady Mary Montague letters
Gertrude Bell
Athabasca University [http://drr2.lib.athabascau.ca/index.php?c=node&m=detail&n=270] has a course which looks at Women's Narratives from the Circumpoplar North. This page has links to many articles nad primary sources on this topic which could be useful related texts.
Klee Wyck [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100131.txt] Emily Carr is one of Canad's most famous C20th artists. This memoir traces her early years visiting the indigenous sites and communities which inspired so much of her work, and gives a real-life context to her preoccupation with the destruction of indigenous cultures (See Chapter 6: D'Sonoqua about her reaction to a local deity and Chapter 9: Grenville about the loss of Indian totems).
Letters and Diaries of Romantic Poets (whose poems you can't use 'cause they're on the HSC list!)
Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001071671] (sister of the poet). While her journal entries may be read as a record of simple domestic pleasures, Dorothy's descriptions reveal a deep connection to the moods of the landscape as a framework for walks, fairs, funerals and other events in her daily life. This could be a good context from which to write about romantic poets, especially the Lake Poets. Rachel Meyer Brownstein [http://l-adam-mekler.com/brownstein_dww_journals.pdf] has written a useful introduction to the literary context of the diaries.
Letters of William Wordsworth [https://ia802608.us.archive.org/2/items/letterswordswor00wordgoog/letterswordswor00wordgoog.pdf] Let me know if you'd like me to buy this book.
Letters of Samuel Colderidge Taylor [https://archive.org/details/cu31924104096536]
Letters and poems of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [https://archive.org/details/lifelettersofmar02marsuoft] (Author of Frankenstein!)
Novels
Ann McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern Novels (sci-fi/fantasy). Humans have colonised the planet Pern without realising the impact of deadly "threads" from space which periodically destroy all carbon-based life. Only an indigenous life-form can save the colonists. The earliest books in the series are science fiction; later book as traditional fantasy (over the centuries knowledge is lost and human civilisation moves to a pseudo-medieval existence). Ms Carmyn has all of this series; see her if you are interested in reading them. The Harper's Hall trilogy are in the school library but may not be the best choices for RepresentingPeople and Landscapes.
Dragonsdawn [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/465904.Dragonsdawn?from_search=true&search_version=service] is the first book in the chronological series (they weren't published in order) describing the initial human reactions to this new environment.
Chronicles of Pern [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96463.The_Chronicles_of_Pern] has four short stories ranging from the establishment of the Colony on Pern to the end of the first Fall. You probably want to have some background knowledge of the series to contextualise the stories (apart from the first one)
Mary Shelley the Last Man [https://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/mws/lastman/i-5.htm] apocalyptic
Utopia Thomas More (F MOR) the original science-fiction text, More's novel depicts the perfect future society where women are equal and civilisation is governed by reason
The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan [1978] READ 27-pg Sample
Hemingway Old Man and the Sea [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2171.My_Old_Man_and_the_Sea?from_search=true&search_version=service] is an intensely poetic fable of an old man in his epic battle with a giant marlin and other denizons of the sea.
Isabel Allende City of the Beasts. This young adult novel contrasts Western and Indigenous interactions to the Amazon landscape and explores the mystical aspects of our relationships with the world around us.
Cathrynne M Valente (F VAL) Deathless [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694389-deathless] A dark romance, this novel explores the imaginary landscapes of Russian mythology.
Cathrynne M Valente (F VAL) Palimpsest [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3973532-palimpsest] A palimpsest is an old text rewritten over time in which the previous texts are still visible. Valente's ultimate landscape is a sexually-transmitted city that will appeal to the literature geek in you.
Jane Austen Northanger Abbey [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50396.Northanger_Abbey_Lady_Susan_The_Watsons_Sanditon?from_search=true&search_version=service] (F AUS) Jane Austen's satire of gothic novels depicts Catherine as the teenager with an overactive imagination - or might she be correct about the strange occurrences in the dark empty mansion?
Michael Ondaatje Coming Through Slaughter [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80064.Coming_Through_Slaughter] invokes a soundscape as much as it does the landscape New Orleans jazz age. ou can read essays on this text at Academia and . Puffin has a reading guide [http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/124585/coming-through-slaughter-by-michael-ondaatje/reading-guide].[http://www.academia.edu/1652107/Unheard_Jazz_Music_and_History_in_Michael_Ondaatje_s_Coming_Through_Slaughter]
Michael Ondaatje Running in the Family [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5941.Running_in_the_Family?from_search=true&search_version=service] is a lyrical memoir of Ondaatje's childhood in Sri Lanka with a particular emphasis on the continued presence of past landscapes (including those of memory and imagination) in the present. It is available online here. Gradesaver have a study guide [http://www.graded.br/uploaded/documents/hsdocs/hsacademicdocs/english/ritf_study_guide_2013.pdf].
Rowena Farre Seal Morning [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824229.Seal_Morning] This highly-romanticised memoir describes the 'author's' life with her aunt Meriam on a remote Scottish croft. It focuses on the humopurous hardships of a self-sufficient lifestyle in the 1930s and waxes lyrical about the harsh landscape and adopted wildlife. Ms Carmyn has a copy. Let her know if you'd like her to buy one for the library.
Anauta travelled america in the mid C20th giving lectures about her childhood growing up living a traditional 'Eskimo' life in the remote North-East of Canada. Land of the Good Shadows tells the story of her childhood (she was brought up as a boy because she was deemed the reincarnation of a local hunter!) and her first and later reactions to contact with the Western world. although there is some speculation as to the veracity of her claims, the book reveals many different interactions of people with their environments old and new. For a discussion of Inuit memoirs and the process of co-writing see Dale S Blake's [http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ59938.pdf] and Anita L Swing's PhD theses. Ms Carmyn has a copy of this book. Let her know if you'd like her to buy one for the library.
Lois McMaster Bujold Falling Free [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61915.Falling_Free?from_search=true&search_version=service] In the Vorkosigan universe, humans have been bioengineered with four arms and no legs to live in perpetual freefall. Ask Ms Carmyn if you'd like her to buy the book. Her award-winning Mountains of Mourning [http://onlinepdfbooks.blogspot.nl/2014/03/the-mountains-of-mourning-by-lois.html], a Sci-Fi detective story, is available as a free ebook.
Neil Gaiman Neverwhere depicts the otherworldly underworld below the city of London
Neil Gaiman Fragile things (last one if good for gothioc)
Michelle Lovric on Venice - which one? Book of Human Skin? The Remedy? Kids book we already have?
Coehelo the Alchemist
Poisonwood Bible
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Hundred Years of Solitude (CHECK LIST)
kafka The Castle
toni Morrison
gulliver's Travels
It's raining in Mango Thea Astley http://readingaustralia.com.au/books/its-raining-in-mango/
Gothic novels
Ann Radcliff
Gormanghast
tony thompson:Suimmer of Monsters (fictionalised Mary Shelley's story)
Author's to look for
Margaret Atwood
Janet Frame
Janette Turner-Hospital
Ruth Park
Children's/teens Books
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Khalifa Brothers #1)by Salman Rushdie, Paul Birkbeck (Illustrator)
Victor Kelleher Taronga [http://momotimetoread.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/taronga-by-victor-kelleher.html ] A bleak but compelling look at the future beyond the nuclear holocaust where Taronga Zoo has been strangely unaffected by the general chaos. Or has it? Is it an island of safety in the midst of so much danger? Or is it really the most sinister place of all? (From Inside a Dog Reviews)
Michael Ende Neverending Story the classic story of an imaginary landscape and what happens when you stop reading. don't forget that you are also the reader reading about the reader reading about an imaginary landscape.
Michael Ende Momo When the grey men from the Time Bank encourage his friends to save time, Momo notices that they seem to have less and less of time to spend with him. As the city becomes bleaker and greyer, he decides to do something about it.
Sonya Hartnett Midnight Zoo [http://momotimetoread.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/midnight-zoo-by-sonya-hartnett.html]
Stolen Lucy christopher Gemma is kidnapped and held hostagei nthe AUstralina outback, the landscape is almost a character in this high drama
Non-fiction
Dictionary of Imaginary Places [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53086.The_Dictionary_of_Imaginary_Places] From Atlantis to Xanadu and beyond, this Baedeker of make-believe takes readers on a tour of more than 1,200 realms invented by storytellers from Homer's day to our own. Ms Carmyn has a copy of this book. Please let her know if you'd like her to bring it in.
Vanishing Cornwall [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1215115.Vanishing_Cornwall?from_search=true&search_version=service] Daphne du Maurier's most famous books (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn) as all set in Cornwall. This non-fiction texts invokes the history and legends of Cornwall that inspired du Maurier's writing and argues for the preservation of a unique physical and imaginary landscape.
Picture Books
Once there was a Boy, Dub Leffler [picture book, 2011] SNEAK PEEK
Gary Crew The Viewer (PB CRE) Hatchett [https://www.hachette.com.au/assets/HachetteAustralia/downloads/TeachersGuides/TheViewer_Teachers_Guide.pdf] has teacher's notes on this book.
Gary Crew The Viewer (PB CRE) Hatchett [https://www.hachette.com.au/assets/HachetteAustralia/downloads/TeachersGuides/TheViewer_Teachers_Guide.pdf] has teacher's notes on this book.
Poems
Milton Paradise Lost
Dante Inferno
English Romantic Poets
Keats - check whether he's on the HSC LIst????
Lord Byron [http://www.mykeep.com/lordbyron/poems.html] was a key Romantic poet, and the dark heroic hearthrob of his time. The link has a a small selection of his poems. Tell Ms Carmyn if you'd like her to by the complete Poems, or his letters. Questia has an 1825 publication/critiques of his works [https://www.questia.com/read/89800602/the-works-of-lord-byron-with-his-letters-and-journals]
Percy Bysshe Shelley [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/percy-bysshe-shelley#about] His complete works are available at the University of Adelaide [https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shelley/percy_bysshe/s54cp/complete.html]
American poets connected with Transcendentatlism (See Ecological section above)
Whitman
Dickinson
Modern American poets
Hart Crane - His influential modernist poem The Bridge [Scroll down to poems with "The Bridge" as part of the title http://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/harold_hart_crane_2012_4.pdf] represents Brooklyn Bridge, New York as a metaphorical mediator between different social groups. Schmoop [http://www.shmoop.com/to-brooklyn-bridge/] has a page on the prologue, Ode to Brooklyn Bridge [https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/brooklyn-bridge] of the poem. If you can get in, the book is available at Project Muse [https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780823248735]m otherwise ask Ms Carmyn to buy a copy for the library.
Ezra Pound?
William Carlos Williams?
Margaret Atwood
Marrianne Moore
Dante Inferno
English Romantic Poets
Keats - check whether he's on the HSC LIst????
Lord Byron [http://www.mykeep.com/lordbyron/poems.html] was a key Romantic poet, and the dark heroic hearthrob of his time. The link has a a small selection of his poems. Tell Ms Carmyn if you'd like her to by the complete Poems, or his letters. Questia has an 1825 publication/critiques of his works [https://www.questia.com/read/89800602/the-works-of-lord-byron-with-his-letters-and-journals]
Percy Bysshe Shelley [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/percy-bysshe-shelley#about] His complete works are available at the University of Adelaide [https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shelley/percy_bysshe/s54cp/complete.html]
American poets connected with Transcendentatlism (See Ecological section above)
Whitman
Dickinson
Modern American poets
Hart Crane - His influential modernist poem The Bridge [Scroll down to poems with "The Bridge" as part of the title http://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/harold_hart_crane_2012_4.pdf] represents Brooklyn Bridge, New York as a metaphorical mediator between different social groups. Schmoop [http://www.shmoop.com/to-brooklyn-bridge/] has a page on the prologue, Ode to Brooklyn Bridge [https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/brooklyn-bridge] of the poem. If you can get in, the book is available at Project Muse [https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780823248735]m otherwise ask Ms Carmyn to buy a copy for the library.
Ezra Pound?
William Carlos Williams?
Margaret Atwood
Marrianne Moore
Scientific Articles
National Geographic, January 2016 has an entire edition on Why We Need Wild. The Article This is your brain on nature [http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/call-to-wild-text] examines how interaction with the natural environment relieves stress and promotes higher order thinking. sources range from university studies and clinical trials to park rangers, prison inmates and outdoor "forest" kindergartens. this edition also includes articles about the role of National Parks in the US (including historical perspectives) and an examination of the role of Vultures in ecosystems and their resultant interactions with humans.
If you're scientifically inclined, t's worth exploring National Geographic's Archive for other articles as this magazine tends to use a more literary style of reporting than most scientific journals. For instance, Forlorn in the Bayou [http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/10/gulf-oil-spill/barcott-text] discusses the Gulf Oil Spill of 2010's impact on various social groups in Louisiana using highly emotive and descriptive language.
If you're scientifically inclined, t's worth exploring National Geographic's Archive for other articles as this magazine tends to use a more literary style of reporting than most scientific journals. For instance, Forlorn in the Bayou [http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/10/gulf-oil-spill/barcott-text] discusses the Gulf Oil Spill of 2010's impact on various social groups in Louisiana using highly emotive and descriptive language.
Short Stories
Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton. Often referred to as the 'female Henry Lawson', Baynton's stories depict colonial Australian life in the bush as a psychological battle against the unfamiliar, savage landscape. An audio version of this collection can be found at LibriVox [https://archive.org/details/bush_studies_1310_librivox]. Critical Studies of Baynton's work include: Barbara Baynton: Liar or Truth-teller [http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/quodlibet/vol1/downloads/Baynton.pdf] and a Barbara Bayton: Between Two Worlds is available at Redireco.com [http://redirecoo.com/8571462.pdf]. You may choose to critique the common reading of the stories as autobiographical (a common reading of work by women - male writers are not usually subject to this reductionism).
Fairy tales???
eg: Peraults originals (landscape as warning) Articles on this?
Tim Winton - any of Tim winton's texts make grreat use of the landscape, almost as a character.
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Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan. (F TAN) Although these are technically short stories, the illustrations contribute powerfully to the narratives, so you should include them in your analysis (as you would in a picture book).
Songs and Music
It's quite difficult to find appropriate songs for this option, as most songs are about personal experiences and do not focus on the landscape or cityscape that frames the experience. Sometimes the video of the song will fill this gap (many of Bjork's songs do this), but make sure that there is a direct link between the words, themes and techniques of the song - don't just analyse a gratuitous landscape/cityscape!
Things to look for in a song as a related text include: lyrics that tell a coherent narrative/experience, extended metaphors, intertextuality, music that reflects the rhythms of the text and/or context, instrumentation, melodies and harmonies that evoke the landscape/cityscape...
Things that make it less useful: repetition of words and imagery, cliches, love as a message (almost always too personal for this topic!)...
When Björk Met Attenborough depicts Bjork's explorations of sound and nature in the making of her album Biophilia. Together with David Attenburgh, she discovers the physics and biology of sound, creating educational and artistic resources along the way. The full version should be avaliable on TV4Ed. Let Ms Carmyn know if it's not there.
The Dust of Urazgan [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SjelOnGWoU&list=RD9SjelOnGWoU#t=65] Fred smith is an Australian diplomat and singer who has performed extensively overseas as part of his job representing Australia. This album [http://www.fredsmith.com.au/albums/dust-of-uruzgan] come from his time visiting Australian troops in Afghanistan and depicts both the stark beauty of the country and people and the terrible price of war on both soldiers and civilians. He was interviewed on Australian Story [http://www.abc.net.au/austory/specials/asapperslullaby/] and Asia Education [http://www.asiaeducation.edu.au/docs/default-source/curriculum-resources-pdf/dust-of-uruzgan.pdf?sfvrsn=4] has written teacher's notes on the album.
Fourplay (string quartet with a difference) This Machine [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bZkXBRYKwM] critiques the captialist 'machine's' refusal to count the enrironmental cost of C21st Western life.The lyrics are available here [http://www.fourplay.com.au/lyrics/]. tell Ms Carmyn if you'd like her to buy this album.
If you are interested in ethnomusicology and folk music, you might wish to explore fourplay's Anti-occident [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AVIx5wMiLI] which blends Middle Eastern and Bluegrass styles (Make sure you keep relating it to the English topic and don't just write a musicology essay, though!).
Archie Roach Jamu Dreaming : Many of the songs on this album evoke landscape within an Aboriginal political context. Try Weeping in the forest,
Roger Knox and the Pine velley cosmonauts Stranger in my land
U2: Indian Summer Sky, Sunday Bloody Sunday (look at the political context),
Bjork Biophilia
Traditional songs which evoke memories of place:
Australian poems put to music?
any Irish ballads?
Spirituality and Sacred Landscapes
Ms Carmyn has a collection of women's travel writing which depicts each trip as a journey to some new spiritual recognition
Many female scholars and saints wrote about their visions of Christ and heaven, invoking a peculiarly female spiritual landscape. If you are interested in spirituality and feminism, their active creation of imaginary landscapes, often under persecution by established patriarchal religious structures, could cast an interesting light on your other texts. Key writers include:
Hildegarde von Bingen
Gertrude of Helfta
Margery Kempe
Mechtilde HackburneHadjewich of ???
Margerite Porete
Bridget of Sweden
christina Mirabili??
Trauma, Memory and Landscape in Queensland: Women Writing ‘a New Alphabet of Moss and Water’
The Cockleshell Pilgrim [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1714954.Cockleshell_Pilgrim_the_A_Medieval_Journey_to_Compostela?from_search=true&search_version=service] One of the most common Christian pilgrimages from the middle ages to the current century is to St James of Compostella on the Northwest coast of Spain. This book traces the imagined (based on detailed historical research) journey of Robert Sutton the Dye - what did he see on the way and what thoughts might have inspired him? How did his journey compare with that of modern pilgrims? Worth thinking about if you're religious. Ms Carmyn has a copy of this book.
Christ Church, Canterbury: The Spiritual Landscape of Pilgrimage [http://www.illinoismedieval.org/ems/VOL7/hamer.html] Eileen Robertson Hamer has written an essay in which she describes the architecture of Canterbury Cathedral (Kent, England) in terms of a spiritual landscape.
Virgins of Venice is a historical account of life in C16th Venetian convents, including their importance as extensions of family dwellings. It emphasises the ways in which nuns both resisted and were confined by and the convent walls, emphasiing archtecture as both a limitation and a reference point for creative and political agency. A review can be found in The Guardian. Ms Carmyn has a copy of this book.See her if you wish her to buy it for the library.
Scrivias [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/english/f2003/client_edit/documents/scivias.html] Hildegarde von Bingen (Abbess of Disibodenburg in Germany) was one of the most influential women of her era (early C12th), writing about religion, medicine and sexuality, creating plays and music, and even arguing with the established church about doctrine and leadership. Her religious writings are based on her visions of Heaven and personal interactions with god. They often invoke the mystical landscapes, such as the Cosmic Egg [http://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/fiery-cosmic-egg-hildegard-von-bingen-001999], of the classical and biblical mythologies through symbolism and allegory,. A summary of her main theological work, Scrivias can be found at the Oxford Girls Choir. It would be interessting to compare her religious landscapes with those represented much later in Milton's Paradise Lost.
Access Denied: The "wild zone" in visions of Purgatory. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=b7hRfQvdeRgC&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&dq=mystics+medieval+women+visions+landscape&source=bl&ots=tuhktaUfWU&sig=awcVnT6IX-WvuB3KMXQS2Uk-nlQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVtY6j_tfKAhUkUaYKHdMCA_s4ChDoAQgaMAA#v=onepage&q=mystics%20medieval%20women%20visions%20landscape&f=false] This article critiques the association of the feminine with negative spiritual spaces such as purgatory (the 'limbo" into which we are cast when we die, awaiting judgement that will send us to heaven or hell), using a traditional Hagiography of St Chi
Impossible Saints [http://www.amazon.com/Impossible-Saints-Harvest-Mich%C3%A9le-Roberts/dp/0156006596] by award-winning English novelist, Michelle Roberts is a lyrical novel dealing with female spirituality, especially the experiences of medieval mystics and concepts of public and private space. While the book is a novel, many chapters can be read as separate narratives and thus treated as short stories in the style of iconoclastic Hagiographies (stories of saints). The writing style and structure are very contemporary and you'll be wondering just how saintly the protagonists are as they manipulate architecture to their purposes. Ms Carmyn has a copy of this book. Let her know if you'd like her to buy it for the library.
Dante Divine Comedy One of the essential texts of Italian literature,
Ms Carmyn has a collection of women's travel writing which depicts each trip as a journey to some new spiritual recognition
Many female scholars and saints wrote about their visions of Christ and heaven, invoking a peculiarly female spiritual landscape. If you are interested in spirituality and feminism, their active creation of imaginary landscapes, often under persecution by established patriarchal religious structures, could cast an interesting light on your other texts. Key writers include:
Hildegarde von Bingen
Gertrude of Helfta
Margery Kempe
Mechtilde HackburneHadjewich of ???
Margerite Porete
Bridget of Sweden
christina Mirabili??
Trauma, Memory and Landscape in Queensland: Women Writing ‘a New Alphabet of Moss and Water’
The Cockleshell Pilgrim [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1714954.Cockleshell_Pilgrim_the_A_Medieval_Journey_to_Compostela?from_search=true&search_version=service] One of the most common Christian pilgrimages from the middle ages to the current century is to St James of Compostella on the Northwest coast of Spain. This book traces the imagined (based on detailed historical research) journey of Robert Sutton the Dye - what did he see on the way and what thoughts might have inspired him? How did his journey compare with that of modern pilgrims? Worth thinking about if you're religious. Ms Carmyn has a copy of this book.
Christ Church, Canterbury: The Spiritual Landscape of Pilgrimage [http://www.illinoismedieval.org/ems/VOL7/hamer.html] Eileen Robertson Hamer has written an essay in which she describes the architecture of Canterbury Cathedral (Kent, England) in terms of a spiritual landscape.
Virgins of Venice is a historical account of life in C16th Venetian convents, including their importance as extensions of family dwellings. It emphasises the ways in which nuns both resisted and were confined by and the convent walls, emphasiing archtecture as both a limitation and a reference point for creative and political agency. A review can be found in The Guardian. Ms Carmyn has a copy of this book.See her if you wish her to buy it for the library.
Scrivias [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/english/f2003/client_edit/documents/scivias.html] Hildegarde von Bingen (Abbess of Disibodenburg in Germany) was one of the most influential women of her era (early C12th), writing about religion, medicine and sexuality, creating plays and music, and even arguing with the established church about doctrine and leadership. Her religious writings are based on her visions of Heaven and personal interactions with god. They often invoke the mystical landscapes, such as the Cosmic Egg [http://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/fiery-cosmic-egg-hildegard-von-bingen-001999], of the classical and biblical mythologies through symbolism and allegory,. A summary of her main theological work, Scrivias can be found at the Oxford Girls Choir. It would be interessting to compare her religious landscapes with those represented much later in Milton's Paradise Lost.
Access Denied: The "wild zone" in visions of Purgatory. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=b7hRfQvdeRgC&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&dq=mystics+medieval+women+visions+landscape&source=bl&ots=tuhktaUfWU&sig=awcVnT6IX-WvuB3KMXQS2Uk-nlQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVtY6j_tfKAhUkUaYKHdMCA_s4ChDoAQgaMAA#v=onepage&q=mystics%20medieval%20women%20visions%20landscape&f=false] This article critiques the association of the feminine with negative spiritual spaces such as purgatory (the 'limbo" into which we are cast when we die, awaiting judgement that will send us to heaven or hell), using a traditional Hagiography of St Chi
Impossible Saints [http://www.amazon.com/Impossible-Saints-Harvest-Mich%C3%A9le-Roberts/dp/0156006596] by award-winning English novelist, Michelle Roberts is a lyrical novel dealing with female spirituality, especially the experiences of medieval mystics and concepts of public and private space. While the book is a novel, many chapters can be read as separate narratives and thus treated as short stories in the style of iconoclastic Hagiographies (stories of saints). The writing style and structure are very contemporary and you'll be wondering just how saintly the protagonists are as they manipulate architecture to their purposes. Ms Carmyn has a copy of this book. Let her know if you'd like her to buy it for the library.
Dante Divine Comedy One of the essential texts of Italian literature,
Travel Writing
The Back of Beyond (Trailer) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ufj4yda7u4] This 1950s documentary is a wonderful representation of the way that Australians positioned themselves against The Outback. Also notice the ways that the film was used in the past (as suggested in the comments - eg to elicit missionary funding)
Websites
Other lists of related texts include:
State Library of NSW [http://guides.sl.nsw.gov.au/content.php?pid=472895&sid=3874961#modulec]
Ravenswood's Travel Books that look interesting Pintrest Page [https://www.pinterest.com/gothicdivatoo/travel-books-that-look-interesting/]
Tony Britten's ETA website [http://www.etansw.com/module-c--elective-2.html] is especially good for poems and travel writing (scroll down)
worldmapper.org [http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html] has statistically-based maps about geographical and social issues which will make you see the world (literally!) in a new way. Maps range from political to health to resources to military and languages. How do these changing views represent our relationships with the global landscape? Other interesting maps can be found at Twisted Sifter [http://twistedsifter.com/2013/08/maps-that-will-help-you-make-sense-of-the-world/] and, but I think the best site as a relate text is World mapper because it has a unified purpose.
Bipolar Nation: How to Win the 2007 Election, Quarterly Essay 25 [Peter Hartcher, 2007]
State Library of NSW [http://guides.sl.nsw.gov.au/content.php?pid=472895&sid=3874961#modulec]
Ravenswood's Travel Books that look interesting Pintrest Page [https://www.pinterest.com/gothicdivatoo/travel-books-that-look-interesting/]
Tony Britten's ETA website [http://www.etansw.com/module-c--elective-2.html] is especially good for poems and travel writing (scroll down)
worldmapper.org [http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html] has statistically-based maps about geographical and social issues which will make you see the world (literally!) in a new way. Maps range from political to health to resources to military and languages. How do these changing views represent our relationships with the global landscape? Other interesting maps can be found at Twisted Sifter [http://twistedsifter.com/2013/08/maps-that-will-help-you-make-sense-of-the-world/] and, but I think the best site as a relate text is World mapper because it has a unified purpose.
Bipolar Nation: How to Win the 2007 Election, Quarterly Essay 25 [Peter Hartcher, 2007]