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Geografia – nauka czy opowieść?
Geography – A Science or a Story?

Review: Yi-Fu Tuan, Romantic Geography. In Search of the Sublime Landscape. Madison, Wisconsin 2013

Author(s): Anna Marta Dworak
Subject(s): Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Yi-Fu Tuan; Yi-Fu Tuan's "Romantic Geography"

Summary/Abstract: The review discusses Yi-Fu Tuan’s book “Romantic Geography” which juxtaposes a scientific and literary (“romantic”) approach to geography and raises the problem, vital also for literary studies point of view, of the role of story in geography. The presented view secures geography from excessive theorising and may also be inspiring for scholars. Tuan’s book does not strive to a monographic depiction of the subject, but is an essay which in quite a general way sketches the concept of romantic geography.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 233-240
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish