Topographies

This book investigates a cluster of concepts that gather around the question oftopography. They include the initiating efficacy of speech acts ethicalresponsibi... » 

This book investigates a cluster of concepts that gather around the question oftopography. They include the initiating efficacy of speech acts ethicalresponsibility political or legislative power the translation of theory fromone topographical location to another the way topographical delineations canfunction as parable or allegory the relation of personification to landscape.The question of the way speech acts operate in literature and in life is themost pervasive of these topics. Just what in a given text is the topographicalcomponent and how does it operate? Though the texts examined are primarily bynineteenth and twentiethcentury poets Tennyson Hopkins Stevens novelistsKleist Dickens Hardy Faulkner philosophertheorists NietzscheHeidegger Derrida Platos Protagoras and the Book of Ruth are also included. «