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The nature of the problem: Wildernes...

Zezulka-Mailloux, Gabrielle.

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The nature of the problem: Wilderness paradoxes in Jasper National Park (Alberta).

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The nature of the problem: Wilderness paradoxes in Jasper National Park (Alberta)./
作者:	Zezulka-Mailloux, Gabrielle.
面頁冊數:	237 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-10, Section: A, page: 3633.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-10A.
標題:	Language, Rhetoric and Composition. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR08761
ISBN:	9780494087619

The nature of the problem: Wilderness paradoxes in Jasper National Park (Alberta).
Zezulka-Mailloux, Gabrielle.

The nature of the problem: Wilderness paradoxes in Jasper National Park (Alberta). - 237 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-10, Section: A, page: 3633.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta (Canada), 2005.

This dissertation employs the tools of ecocritical scholarship to investigate the paradoxical role of the discourse of wilderness in the marketing of Jasper National Park. It proposes that wilderness, as both a cultural construct and a concept that purportedly stands outside of culture, is an untenable conceptualization of the natural world, particularly in places as heavily managed and shaped by human design as the national parks in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Furthermore, it posits that wilderness spaces ultimately resist static textual representations because their mutability and constant evolution are integral to their conceptual existence.

ISBN: 9780494087619Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019205
Language, Rhetoric and Composition.

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