Imagining Australian Space: Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry
- ISBN-10
- 1876268379
- ISBN-13
- 9781876268374
- Category
- Social Science / General
- Pages
- 218
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Western Australia Press
- Authors
- Ian Buchanan, Ruth Barcan
Description
Barcan (humanities, U. of Western Sydney) and Buchanan (English, U. of Tasmania) present 14 papers which aim to explore a representative range of Australian spaces through a range of perspectives that have contributed to Australian cultural studies, including semiotics, discourse analysis, phenomeno
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