La construction des horizons. Nature, lieux, paysages dans la litterature et la geographie
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Abstract EN:
Confrontation of literary texts and geographical items chosen amongst european and american authors having published between 1780 and 1950. These texts deal with notions such as locus, landscape and nature. The mains purpose of this study are : 1) an exam of descriptions where these three notions seem to be associated with precises experiences concerning spatial reality : horizonq, i. E. Objects observed from a determined point at a specific moment in history. We try to define the organisation of spatial relationships between these objects. 2) the geographical approach, where observers try to recognize the spatial elements issued from the major physical constallations - human as well as natural -, is compared with others approaches. The structural qualities observed by geographers are diffenrenciated from those resulting from the analysis of less formalised ans more fragile spatial's unitites that allows to control emotional effects. 3) the critical evaluation of several transformations of the earth's surface resulting from the evolution of technical equipments - especially transports is considered through the modifications of vulnerable and subtle configurations such as landscape and locus.
Abstract FR:
Confrontation de textes litteraites et geographiques, choisis chez des auteurs de culture europeenne entre 1780 et 1950, autour des notions de lieu, de paysage, de nature. 1) examen des sequences descriptives ou ces trois notions apparaissent associees a des experiences tres definies des la realite spatiale : des horizons, c'est-a-dire, une serie de choses vues en des endroits et des instants determines, mais aussi une volonte d'organiser les rapports que ces choses entretiennent entre elles et avec celui qui les regarde. 2) l'approche geographique, ou l'on cherche a reconnaitre des unites spatiales repondant aux grandes formations physiques - naturelles et humaines - qui organisent l'etendue, est comparee et opposee a des approches reposant sur la mise en forme d'unites plus instables et plus singulieres permettant de controler certains affects. 3) les critiques portees sur plusieurs evolutions du territoire deploiement des grandes infrastructures de transport notamment - sont interpretees du point de vue des entites spatiales fragiles et subtiles menacees par ces mutations. On se refere alors a des logiques de compositions du lieu ou des paysages que la litterature nous a permis d'observer.