ABSTRACT
The chapter discusses from varying points of view with ancient and modern instances of landscape or seascape and with the way individuals or cultures have arranged, conceptualized, or imagined circumambient space. It focuses on how cultures of the past have represented land or water and people in relation to them. Sometimes, as in Baron Kelly's, landscape is metaphorically understood, the predominantly white directors and actors chosen for work in Norwegian theater. The geography of postmodern meta-utopian spaces as explored by Mary Theis is a world away from the mainly postcolonial perspectives onto historical geography, memory, and cultural difference as represented by Jonathan Locke Hart. The worlds of landscape, seascape, and the eco-spatial imagination are not one but many by its design, sequencing, and sheer variety of perspectives implicitly acknowledges. Through analyses of poetry by Shakespeare and others or of prose passages from literary inheritance so intense and filled with lyrical thinking that we might call them instances of prose poetry.
