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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... become an elaborate cult , a self - conscious worship . Mankind has always loved nature ; but not until the eighteenth century did the love of nature blossom out into a dependence on a great personified Nature for wisdom , spiritual ...
... become an elaborate cult , a self - conscious worship . Mankind has always loved nature ; but not until the eighteenth century did the love of nature blossom out into a dependence on a great personified Nature for wisdom , spiritual ...
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... become the chief term of aesthetic and moral approval , and sublime experience become a new kind of religion . In other words , ideas that were rather new to European culture were founding precepts of Canadian culture . Settlers brought ...
... become the chief term of aesthetic and moral approval , and sublime experience become a new kind of religion . In other words , ideas that were rather new to European culture were founding precepts of Canadian culture . Settlers brought ...
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... become alienated from its spiritual nature because of the growing secularism of eighteenth - century society : Thus the terrible race of Los and Enitharmon gave Laws and religions to the sons of Har , binding them more And more to earth ...
... become alienated from its spiritual nature because of the growing secularism of eighteenth - century society : Thus the terrible race of Los and Enitharmon gave Laws and religions to the sons of Har , binding them more And more to earth ...
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... becomes sublime , when I contemplate eternity under that figure - The Beautiful is the perfection , the Sublime the suspension , of the comparing Power . Nothing not shapely ( formosus : nam etiam musice suam habet formam ) can be ...
... becomes sublime , when I contemplate eternity under that figure - The Beautiful is the perfection , the Sublime the suspension , of the comparing Power . Nothing not shapely ( formosus : nam etiam musice suam habet formam ) can be ...
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... becomes so delicate and fastidious with respect to forms in scenery , where he has a power to exercise a controul [ sic ] over them , that if they do not exactly please him in all moods , and every point of view , his power becomes his ...
... becomes so delicate and fastidious with respect to forms in scenery , where he has a power to exercise a controul [ sic ] over them , that if they do not exactly please him in all moods , and every point of view , his power becomes his ...
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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