The Picturesque and the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian LandscapeMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1998 M07 16 - 225 páginas Glickman argues that early immigrants to Canada brought with them the expectation that nature would be grand, mysterious, awesome - even terrifying - and welcomed scenes that conformed to these notions of sublimity. She contends that to interpret their descriptions of nature as "negative," as so many critics have done, is a significant misunderstanding. Glickman provides close readings of several important works, including Susanna Moodie's "Enthusiasm," Charles G.D. Roberts's Ave, and Paulette Jiles's "Song to the Rising Sun," and explores the poems in the context of theories of nature and art. Instead of projecting backward from a modernist perspective, Glickman reads forward from the discovery of landscape as a legitimate artistic subject in seventeenth-century England and argues that picturesque modes of description, and a sublime aesthetic, have governed much of the representation of nature in this country. |
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... argues that early immigrants to Canada brought with them the expectation that nature would be grand , mysterious , awe- even terrifying - and welcomed scenes that conformed to these notions of sublimity . She contends that to interpret ...
... argues that early immigrants to Canada brought with them the expectation that nature would be grand , mysterious , awe- even terrifying - and welcomed scenes that conformed to these notions of sublimity . She contends that to interpret ...
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... argue the opposite case . I believe that Canadian poets have consistently trans- formed their English ( and broadly European ) literary inheritance to make it speak of their experience in this country - in particular their confrontation ...
... argue the opposite case . I believe that Canadian poets have consistently trans- formed their English ( and broadly European ) literary inheritance to make it speak of their experience in this country - in particular their confrontation ...
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... argues that : " Literary criticism traces the figure of our desire . Our repeated desire as critics of Canadian literature has been to de / sire , to discover our ... own identity and thereby release ourselves from our literary X Preface.
... argues that : " Literary criticism traces the figure of our desire . Our repeated desire as critics of Canadian literature has been to de / sire , to discover our ... own identity and thereby release ourselves from our literary X Preface.
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... arguing for design on the basis of function . Combe may have been predisposed to Repton's aesthetic independence from spending so much time polishing descriptions of North American scenery which didn't fit the contemporary preference ...
... arguing for design on the basis of function . Combe may have been predisposed to Repton's aesthetic independence from spending so much time polishing descriptions of North American scenery which didn't fit the contemporary preference ...
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Contenido
3 | |
Abrams Plain and Quebec Hill in Context | 20 |
Notes on the Canadian Sublime | 38 |
The Waxing and Waning of Susanna Moodies Enthusiasm | 60 |
Wordsworth Shelley and Charles GD Roberts Ave | 81 |
New Provinces? or In Acadia No Ego | 103 |
Song to the Rising Sun | 128 |
Notes | 155 |
Index | 207 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Picturesque and the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape Susan Glickman Vista previa limitada - 2000 |
The Picturesque and the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape Susan Glickman Vista previa limitada - 1998 |
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