Abstract
Some have argued that cultural geographers have relied too much on the author's surface descriptors, lexicons, and imagery of people and place. This exercise in ‘cut and pasting’ of appropriate block quotes is what Porteous and Pocock have reffered to as the quarrying/mining of texts in what has passed for ‘the geography of literature,’ or the ‘literature of place.’ Increasingly, we are being warned of ‘naive realism’ (Eagleton 1978). Similarly, arguing from the premise that literature is not a mere mirror of reality, Barnes and Duncan (1992) have called for a more critical deconstruction of texts: the interpretation of the text in terms of ‘intertextuality’; and appreciation of the ‘extratextual’ context of the writer and reader, a concern with the literary devices of metaphor, irony, simile — and not just accessi9ble semantics — in decoding texts. And yet, for this writer at least, the power of the authorial imagination is privileged.
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