RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 GeoTropes: Memory and Surface
JF Landscape Journal
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 69
OP 69
DO 10.3368/lj.24.1.69
VO 24
IS 1
A1 Kaytes, Jolie
YR 2005
UL http://lj.uwpress.org/content/24/1/69.abstract
AB Geo: A combining form meaning “the earth”Trope: Any literary or rhetorical device that consists in the use of words in other than their literal senseGeoTropes are poems that use concepts in geomorphology to express the dynamic nature of occupying landscapes. Geomorphology is the study of the evolution and configuration of landforms: the study of the ground. The use of the scientific language of the ground to communicate how humans experience the ground is a vehicle for understanding how people inhabit and are products of landscape processes. These GeoTropes pertain to the implicit tensions among memory, desire and space making.