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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... sense of ' Otherness , " " I would contest their assertion that " of course , at this stage no effective models exist for expressing this sense of Otherness in a positive and creative way . " 5 The sublime was , and remains , an ...
... sense of ' Otherness , " " I would contest their assertion that " of course , at this stage no effective models exist for expressing this sense of Otherness in a positive and creative way . " 5 The sublime was , and remains , an ...
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... senses was complete . Urizen wept and gave it into the hands of Newton and Locke . ( " The Song of Los , " 11.44-8 ) 12 But his indictment of Newton was mistaken , for to Newton , the fact that the universe was governed by mathematical ...
... senses was complete . Urizen wept and gave it into the hands of Newton and Locke . ( " The Song of Los , " 11.44-8 ) 12 But his indictment of Newton was mistaken , for to Newton , the fact that the universe was governed by mathematical ...
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... sense of sight , painting was invoked again and again in the early years of the eighteenth century as the model and test for all works of art . Ut pictura poesis , whatever it had once meant , exhorted poets to think of themselves as ...
... sense of sight , painting was invoked again and again in the early years of the eighteenth century as the model and test for all works of art . Ut pictura poesis , whatever it had once meant , exhorted poets to think of themselves as ...
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... sense of a Golden Age , of grazing flocks , unruffled waters and a calm , lumi- nous sky , images of perfect harmony between man and nature , but touched ... with a Mozartian wistfulness , as if [ the painter ] knew that this perfection ...
... sense of a Golden Age , of grazing flocks , unruffled waters and a calm , lumi- nous sky , images of perfect harmony between man and nature , but touched ... with a Mozartian wistfulness , as if [ the painter ] knew that this perfection ...
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... Sense is sublime in itself ; but only as far as I make it a symbol of some Idea . The circle is a beautiful figure in itself ; it becomes sublime , when I contemplate eternity under that figure - The Beautiful is the perfection , the ...
... Sense is sublime in itself ; but only as far as I make it a symbol of some Idea . The circle is a beautiful figure in itself ; it becomes sublime , when I contemplate eternity under that figure - The Beautiful is the perfection , the ...
Contenido
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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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