In the mind's eye
Subtitle: essays across the animate world
By: Elizabeth Dodd.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780803215665
Description: "In this collection of essays, Elizabeth Dodd explores the natural and human history of sites in the American Southwest, the caves of southern France, the Kansas grasslands, and the forests of the Pacific Northwest. In the Mind's Eye considers the artistic and creative impulses of those who preceded us, making sense of the different ways in which they - and we - express our experiences of landscape in words and images. Hiking to find ancient petroglyphs in the American Southwest, canoeing black-water rivers to reach ancient trees in the coastal Southeast, and considering artists as varied as Georgia O'Keeffe and the poet of Beowulf, Dodd discerns the nature of place as well as our place in nature. Combining lyrical narrative, reflection, history, and science, Dodd invites readers to consider their aesthetic ancestors and connect with the legacies of these landscapes."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Setting forth in their footprints; title: Memory's hills; title: Cold meditations; title: Walden, woods; title: Cañonicity; title: In the mind's eye; title: Here the animal; title: La descente; title: In situ; title: Fragments; title: The Shannon Creek eagles; title: Bones of fear; title: Aspects; title: In such a homecoming; title: The kingdom; title: The scribe in the woods.