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Ryden, Kent C. "Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Geography, Narrative, and the Sense of Place," Brown University, 1991. Advisor: Bruce Rosenberg (10, 12, 23)
All people form a “sense of place” regarding the locations in which they live-an experiential awareness of a place’s physical qualities, history, and value, combined with a feeling that personal identity is somehow rooted in place. This sense is the generating, shaping force behind the narratives-formal and informal, oral and written-that people tell about the places in their lives. This dissertation explores the sense of place through examining the verbal expressions of both oral narrators and nonfiction writers as they comment on particular places, concentrating on both field=collected folk narratives and the “essay of place”- the personal essay that describes and explores both a particular place and the writer’s relationship to that place.
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