Space, Place, and Memory inHollowayby Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, and Dan Richards

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Authors and Corporations: Bader, Giselle
In: Space and Culture, 23, 2020, 2, p. 98-105
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SAGE Publications
Media Type: Article, E-Article

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Physical Description: 98-105
ISSN: 1206-3312
1552-8308
DOI: 10.1177/1206331218773658
published in: Space and Culture
Language: English
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Collection: SAGE Publications (CrossRef)
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<jats:p>This article is an examination of space, place, and memory in the 2012 book Holloway written by Robert Macfarlane and Dan Richards and illustrated by Stanley Donwood. The South Dorset holloways of the Chideock valley are experienced by the authors through the kinesthetic motion of walking through the space. This lived site is then interpreted through the individual’s social body, transforming it into a repository of colliding personal and collective cultural memories. Within Macfarlane’s phenomenological experience of the holloways, the boundaries between life and death, past and present, and self and culture are permanently blurred.</jats:p>