GGR246H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cultural Geography, Mercator Projection, Pierre Trudeau
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The north as a more significantly natural, less cultural space than the rest of the nation (this is false: sense of dislocation/difference. These views are produced by people from the south who have visited" the north. Not just a place, but also a sort of goal/experience: common negativity about less-civilized people in the north, stereotypes of northern people. Scottish as being savages, etc: contradictions odyssey of homer if you go beyond the north" there might be fertile island, heavenly north: hereford mappa mundi, england (1300, mercator projection (1569) Successful expeditions (they returned) resulted in a lot of media coverage/scientific news. In 19th century romanticism, darwinism, images of the north entering the culture: romantic polar vision of the arctic sailing over a calm sea, land of wonder and beauty". Ggr246 lecture 6: often same style of representing country homes, plantations. Bloody fall , john franklin, narrative ofa journey to the shores of the polar sea (1823)
