The Liminal Landscape of John Cowper Powys.
The concept of liminality, the mystic properties of boundaries and thresholds, is discussed in relation to various landscape elements such as water/land interfaces, enclaves, and islands. Reasons are given to identify the Dorset setting of John Cowper Powys's novel Wolf Solent as a liminal landscape...
| Publicado en: | Time & Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness & Culture Vol. 2; no. 1; pp. 71 - 77 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2009
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