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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... poems to contemporary encounters with landscape . Arguing against the received wisdom ( made popular by Northrop Frye and Margaret Atwood ) that Canadian writers view nature as hostile , Susan Glickman places Canadian literature in the ...
... poems to contemporary encounters with landscape . Arguing against the received wisdom ( made popular by Northrop Frye and Margaret Atwood ) that Canadian writers view nature as hostile , Susan Glickman places Canadian literature in the ...
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... poets incapable of meaningful response to the world they inhabited . That poets used traditional forms , imagery emphasizing the fearful , mysterious , or impersonal qualities of nature , and , according to some critics , the English ...
... poets incapable of meaningful response to the world they inhabited . That poets used traditional forms , imagery emphasizing the fearful , mysterious , or impersonal qualities of nature , and , according to some critics , the English ...
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... poets who roam through this work , I too wish to wander , ponder , and digress , according to the dictates of the ... poems informed by these aesthetics . It may seem that the picturesque and the sublime are being proposed as new - but ...
... poets who roam through this work , I too wish to wander , ponder , and digress , according to the dictates of the ... poems informed by these aesthetics . It may seem that the picturesque and the sublime are being proposed as new - but ...
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... poems describing particular landscapes in classical literature as in English literature before the eighteenth century ... poem imitated those works of Virgil , Horace and Martial which celebrated the benefits of bucolic retirement for ...
... poems describing particular landscapes in classical literature as in English literature before the eighteenth century ... poem imitated those works of Virgil , Horace and Martial which celebrated the benefits of bucolic retirement for ...
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... poem is , above all , an aristocratic compliment . - As G.R. Hibbard points out , " after 1660 this kind of poem was no longer written , because the way of life that it reflects , and out of which it grows , was on the decline . " But ...
... poem is , above all , an aristocratic compliment . - As G.R. Hibbard points out , " after 1660 this kind of poem was no longer written , because the way of life that it reflects , and out of which it grows , was on the decline . " But ...
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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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