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BODYSCAPE: THE BODY‐LANDSCAPE METAPHOR
Author(s) -
Porteous J. Douglas
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
canadian geographer / le géographe canadien
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.35
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1541-0064
pISSN - 0008-3658
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0064.1986.tb01020.x
Subject(s) - metaphor , humanities , relation (database) , art , the renaissance , human body , ethnology , art history , geography , cartography , philosophy , history , theology , artificial intelligence , computer science , database
The metaphorical use of body imagery in relation to landscape is fundamental in the Western world. The Renaissance metaphor that understood the earth to be modelled on the human body has generally been regarded as a one‐way relation, ‘landscape as body. It finds its expression in generic landscape naming. In imaginative literature at least, the reverse relation, ‘body as landscape,’ is of frequent occurrence and continues well into the machine age. The body in question is generally female, and the culmination of the ‘body as landscape' metaphor is pornotopia. L'utilisation de la métaphore reliant I'image du corps à celle du paysage est fondamentale dans notre culture occidental. Durant la Renaissance, on s'accordait sur le fait que la terre était modelée sur le corps humain; la métaphore symbolisait done une relation unidirectionel‐le: ‘paysage, image du corps. Cette idée est exprimée dans les noms génériques des paysages. Dans la litérature, au contraire, e'est la relatio inverse, ‘corps, image du paysage,’ qui a été souvent utilisée, persistant long‐temps dans I'ère de la machine. En général, s'agit du corps féminin et le point culminant de la métaphore ‘corps, image du paysage' est de la ‘pornotopie.

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