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The prairie novel and the European immigrant: new perspectives for the geography classroom

Japanese perception of nature in the novel « Snow Country »
In his famous novel the Nobel laureate Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972) evokes the city dweller reacting to a natural landscape which reveals much about a specific Japanese attitude to nature. - (DWG)

The zealousness of being novel : a reply to Haila in Space and analytical political economy.

Argentina ; Civilization ; Cultural studies ; Dystopia ; Ecological catastrophe ; Literature ; Novel
In this article I consider the temporality of postapocalyptic narrative and use a contemporary postapocalyptic novel, Plop (2004), by the Argentine author Rafael Pinedo, to open up new considerations of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s classic Facundo
: Civilización y barbarie (1845). Following the method proposed by Jorge Luis Borges (1966) in “Kafka and His Precursors,” it is my position that Pinedo’s novel invents a new, postapocalyptic Facundo, thus converting Sarmiento into one of the American continent’s
first postapocalyptic authors. Furthermore, Pinedo’s novel re-frames the “civilization or barbarism” debate under the contemporary sign of ecological catastrophe, allowing the reader to arrive at new and startling conclusions about language

This Nigerian novel tells the story of a traditional Igbo life when colonialism and Christianity first penetrated eastern Nigeria at the turn of the century. The deep sense of place in this novel makes it a useful way to introduce geography students

The article is talking about of mythological, religious and philosophical origins of the centre-periphery opposition and the Balkan as peripheral territory in the Macedonian media, for example Kolbe's romantic novel Snow in Casablanca
and Andonovski's novel The Navel of the World. - (IfL)

Biogeography of the Anthropocene : Novel species assemblages
Adaptation ; Anthropocene ; Biodiversity ; Biogeography ; Climatic change ; Extinction of species ; Forecast ; Human impact ; Man-environment relations ; Modelling ; Novel ecosystem ; Palaeo-ecology ; Population dynamics

and exotic lands. He wrote over sixty novels in his Voyages Extraordinaires series, which had a lasting impact on the science fiction genre. He visited Scotland in 1859, and again in 1879 when he witnessed the majesty of Edinburgh, the industrial dynamism
of Glasgow, and the unspoilt beauty of the Highlands and Islands. In addition to a travelogue of his first voyage to Scotland, Verne wrote five novels set wholly or in part in what he regarded as his ancestral country; Scottish characters featured in several
other of his novels. - (HC)

Insiders and outsiders, or core and periphery in the novels of Kenneth Roberts

Inscape : landscapes of the mind in the Canadian and Mexican novels of Malcolm Lowry

Miehen kunnia - romaani Iivari Leiviskästä (Miehen kunnia - a novel about Iivari Leiviskâ)

A novel approach to precipitation series completion in climatological datasets : application to Andalusia

Power, authority, and location in the British novel : Edward Said and the politics of place

This study presents an analysis of the distribution regarding the two main types of the novel forest decline in Norway Spruce stands. The investigated area is the Western part of the Harz mountains. Besides terrestrial methods color infrared
photography is mainly used to inspect the extent of novel forest decline in Lower Saxony. This method idnetifies different decline symptoms and small spatial patterns of decline. In addition, the sample density allows to investigate the spatial distribution

projects in Switzerland in the field of smart electricity management, aimed at (1) the assessment of customer needs and behaviours with regard to novel smart metering solutions (iSMART), and (2) the elaboration of novel IT solutions in the field of smart

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