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Article Title

Narratives of Loss and Order and Imaging the Belgian Landscape 1900-1945

Authors

Bruno Notteboom, Ghent University
David Peleman, Ghent University

Abstract

In their article "Narratives of Loss and Order and Imaging the Belgian Landscape 1900-1945" Bruno Notteboom and David Peleman analyze a number of publications on landscape, focusing on narratives constructed by means of landscape images published in Belgium. With the work of Jean Massart and Emile Vanderwelde as a point of departure, Notteboom and Peleman discuss popularizing publications in the fields of botany, agricultural education, and tourism, as well as an urban planning. They address the three realms of landscape narratives defined by Matthew Potteiger and Jamie Purinton as story, context/intertext, and discourse. Notteboom and Peleman distinguish three recurrent operations or narrative techniques: framing, sequencing, and juxtaposing whereby their main argument is that in spite of their ideological differences the publications they discuss seek a way of dealing with processes of modernization and with the loss of a traditional way of living defined by a direct relation with the land.

Recommended Citation

Notteboom, Bruno; and Peleman, David. "Narratives of Loss and Order and Imaging the Belgian Landscape 1900-1945." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 14.3 (2012): <http://dx.doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2046>

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