1) List the most pressing thought and discussion-starting question that each reading raises for you.
For Space and Place:
Taste, smell, skin sensitivity and hearing cannot individually (nor perhaps even together) make us aware of a spacious external world inhabited by objects. In combination with the “spatializing” faculties of sight and touch, however, these essentially nondistancing senses greatly enrich our apprehension of the world’s spatial and geometrical character.
For Place by Price:
Home, “the topography of our intimate being” (Bachelard 1994:xxxvi), is the site of our most intimate of relationships with place, as well as one of the first that we experience. Homes(places invested with meaning and experience) and houses( the physical structures within which most human homes reside) frame the family dynamics that are so central to shaping us as adults. They provide refuge from the outside world at times in life(infancy, illness, old age) when we are particularly fragile.
Summarize each reading
Space and Place:
In the first two chapters of Space and Place The Perspective of Experience written by Yi-Fu Tuan, the writer gives us an introduction about what he is going to cover in this book and also talks bout something about experience associated with space and place. In the first chapter, he talks about the reason why he is going to write this book and three themes that are going to weave through the book. In the latter chapter he talks about something really interesting about how taste and, smell, skin sensitivity, and hearing help us experience the external world around us. Tuan holds the idea that distance of space can be created out of many of our senses like hearing and seeing. He talks about space and place from an experiential perspective in this chapter. (Tuan 3-18)
Chapter 13 Place
In the Chapter 13 Place, writer Patricia L.Price compares space with place first and then goes into detailed description about place from many perspectives including crafting place, writing place, place and bodies in motion, the intimacy of place and rethinking place. He states that places are made through human interaction and that home is our most intimate place. He also believes that the most painful thing universally is being removed forcefully from one’s place. Walking in this chapter is defined as a very good way to experience place. Although he admits the sort of unconditional love of place, he still asks us to rethink the place. Place may also be associated with other emotions like: loss, melancholy and loneliness. (Price 119-129)
Synthesize:
Actually Patricia L. Price wrote this article Place many years after Yi-Fu Tuan’s Space and Place, so we can find out that in Price’s article, he cites many paragraphs to illustrate his point. Both of these two writers’ passages talk about place and space. Tuan discusses place’s central status from the perspective of geography. Price talks about this and then discusses the relationship between place and landscape. In Price’s article, he talks about the Intimacy of Place, Price also cites several thoughts and ideas from Tuan. Both of these two writers hold the belief that emotional component is very important to space and place. Price also states that the positioning inside or outside of the place is really important. The removal from one’s place would make someone really sad. Tuan also has similar idea in his statement. In short, we can say that both of these two writers, Price and Tuan are very interested in place and space. They hold some ideas in common and thus Price cites some of Tuan’s statements in his article. However, they also share some their own unique ideas. For example, Tuan talks a lot from the experiential perspective, but Price puts his focus on other many different perspectives like place and bodies, intimacy and crafting on Place.
Reach Out (in 200 words or less): how do the selections you read relate to Lahiri's "Rhode Island"?
We can see that both of the two writers agree that emotional component plays an important role in place. This is exactly associated with what Lahiri wrote in “Rhodes Island”. In his article, Lahiri indeed places a lot of her own emotion in the places she had been to, like on Rhodes Island. In the last paragraph of her article, Lahiri tells us that “Due to my parents’ beliefs, whenever they do die, they will not be buried in Rhode Island soil…There will be no longer be a reason to break the journey in Little Rest. Like many others, we will pass through without stopping” (Lahiri 111). Here, we are talking about a sense of belonging. Why did her parents get this sense of belonging? That is because they put their emotional component onto one place. That is exactly what Price and Tuan talks about in their articles.
Summary Tweet:
In Tuan’s For Space and Place, the first chapter gives an introduction to the book and the second chapter talks about place and space from the experiential perspective. In Place, Price talks about place in many ways and states that emotional component plays a very important role in place and space.
Synthesis Tweet:
In Place, Price uses several ideas and thoughts of Tuan. They agree on some points in these two articles Place and Space and Place, like on that emotional component is very important to place and space. However, on some other points, they still illustrate their ideas differently. They both give us a lot of thoughts on place and space.
Works Cited
Jhumpa Lahiri. “Where Are You From? Notions of Identity &Place.” Rhode Island. 101-113. Print.
Patricia L. Price. Place. 119-129. Print.
Yi-Fu Tuan. “The Perspective of Experience.” Space and Place. 3-18. Print.
For Space and Place:
Taste, smell, skin sensitivity and hearing cannot individually (nor perhaps even together) make us aware of a spacious external world inhabited by objects. In combination with the “spatializing” faculties of sight and touch, however, these essentially nondistancing senses greatly enrich our apprehension of the world’s spatial and geometrical character.
For Place by Price:
Home, “the topography of our intimate being” (Bachelard 1994:xxxvi), is the site of our most intimate of relationships with place, as well as one of the first that we experience. Homes(places invested with meaning and experience) and houses( the physical structures within which most human homes reside) frame the family dynamics that are so central to shaping us as adults. They provide refuge from the outside world at times in life(infancy, illness, old age) when we are particularly fragile.
Summarize each reading
Space and Place:
In the first two chapters of Space and Place The Perspective of Experience written by Yi-Fu Tuan, the writer gives us an introduction about what he is going to cover in this book and also talks bout something about experience associated with space and place. In the first chapter, he talks about the reason why he is going to write this book and three themes that are going to weave through the book. In the latter chapter he talks about something really interesting about how taste and, smell, skin sensitivity, and hearing help us experience the external world around us. Tuan holds the idea that distance of space can be created out of many of our senses like hearing and seeing. He talks about space and place from an experiential perspective in this chapter. (Tuan 3-18)
Chapter 13 Place
In the Chapter 13 Place, writer Patricia L.Price compares space with place first and then goes into detailed description about place from many perspectives including crafting place, writing place, place and bodies in motion, the intimacy of place and rethinking place. He states that places are made through human interaction and that home is our most intimate place. He also believes that the most painful thing universally is being removed forcefully from one’s place. Walking in this chapter is defined as a very good way to experience place. Although he admits the sort of unconditional love of place, he still asks us to rethink the place. Place may also be associated with other emotions like: loss, melancholy and loneliness. (Price 119-129)
Synthesize:
Actually Patricia L. Price wrote this article Place many years after Yi-Fu Tuan’s Space and Place, so we can find out that in Price’s article, he cites many paragraphs to illustrate his point. Both of these two writers’ passages talk about place and space. Tuan discusses place’s central status from the perspective of geography. Price talks about this and then discusses the relationship between place and landscape. In Price’s article, he talks about the Intimacy of Place, Price also cites several thoughts and ideas from Tuan. Both of these two writers hold the belief that emotional component is very important to space and place. Price also states that the positioning inside or outside of the place is really important. The removal from one’s place would make someone really sad. Tuan also has similar idea in his statement. In short, we can say that both of these two writers, Price and Tuan are very interested in place and space. They hold some ideas in common and thus Price cites some of Tuan’s statements in his article. However, they also share some their own unique ideas. For example, Tuan talks a lot from the experiential perspective, but Price puts his focus on other many different perspectives like place and bodies, intimacy and crafting on Place.
Reach Out (in 200 words or less): how do the selections you read relate to Lahiri's "Rhode Island"?
We can see that both of the two writers agree that emotional component plays an important role in place. This is exactly associated with what Lahiri wrote in “Rhodes Island”. In his article, Lahiri indeed places a lot of her own emotion in the places she had been to, like on Rhodes Island. In the last paragraph of her article, Lahiri tells us that “Due to my parents’ beliefs, whenever they do die, they will not be buried in Rhode Island soil…There will be no longer be a reason to break the journey in Little Rest. Like many others, we will pass through without stopping” (Lahiri 111). Here, we are talking about a sense of belonging. Why did her parents get this sense of belonging? That is because they put their emotional component onto one place. That is exactly what Price and Tuan talks about in their articles.
Summary Tweet:
In Tuan’s For Space and Place, the first chapter gives an introduction to the book and the second chapter talks about place and space from the experiential perspective. In Place, Price talks about place in many ways and states that emotional component plays a very important role in place and space.
Synthesis Tweet:
In Place, Price uses several ideas and thoughts of Tuan. They agree on some points in these two articles Place and Space and Place, like on that emotional component is very important to place and space. However, on some other points, they still illustrate their ideas differently. They both give us a lot of thoughts on place and space.
Works Cited
Jhumpa Lahiri. “Where Are You From? Notions of Identity &Place.” Rhode Island. 101-113. Print.
Patricia L. Price. Place. 119-129. Print.
Yi-Fu Tuan. “The Perspective of Experience.” Space and Place. 3-18. Print.