Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Erchinger, Philipp

Titel

Introduction: Earth Writing

Ist Teil von

• Philological quarterly, 2018-03, Vol.97 (2), p.125-135

Ort / Verlag

Iowa City: University of Iowa

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• "Earth Writing," the title of this special issue, is a literal interpretation of geography, a compound of the Greek words for "earth" (geo) and "to write" (graphein). In a philological context, this interpretation seems promising; for it implies that geography is a way of joining the physical existence of the earth with the human practice of making it readable, of translating it into written text, that is: into literature in the most general sense of the term. Yet, if geography is a mode of composing writing or literature on, about, through, or by means of the earth, then literature, conversely, can also be seen as a kind of geography: as a mode of creating versions, figures, models, stories, or fictions of, and with, the physical environment that enables and sustains our human lives as well as our works.