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Article: Peter Handke's Landscapes of Discourse.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2006
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Peter Handke's Landscapes of Discourse. By CHRISTOPHER PARRY. (Studies in Austrian R01700 Literature, Culture and Thought)Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press. 2003. 251 pp. $29; 45[pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-57241-121-x.
Peter Handke's Landscapes of Discourse is the culmination of Christoph Parry's enduring interest in the representation of space and place in Handke's fiction, drama, and essayistic work. As Parry explains in his introduction, the phrase 'Landscapes of Discourse' is to be understood both literally and metaphorically: it refers both to the ways in which landscape is constructed through the medium of words and to the wider discursive field that is generated ...