Poetic Landscape

Author : Cynthia McLaren
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781525549830

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Canada by Cynthia McLaren Pdf

Canada: A Poetic Landscape is a well-considered, joy-filled journey into the vast splendour of the Canadian landscape, its history and heritage, crafted through the lens of an artist turned poet. Experience every province and territory, the book imparts lesser-known information about Canada through colourful, detailed, and whimsical paintings alongside culturally themed stories expressed in verse. From totem poles and inukshuks to the fur trade and the gold rush, from cottage country and maple syrup to high tides and sculptured rocks, from a long history of war to the land cradled on the waves, this book is rich with the uniqueness of each province and territory. Canada: A Poetic Landscape offers an alternative or addition to the map-colouring and memorization of provinces taught in most schools, and provides a more comprehensive understanding of geography and history. Written primarily for children aged ten years and older, this book will inspire readers, young and old, to want to learn more about and experience more of Canada.

Author : Gilbert Highet
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781590173381

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Poets in a Landscape by Gilbert Highet Pdf

Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some of the greatest Roman poets by describing the places were they lived, recreating their characters and evoking the essence of their work.” The poets are Catullus, Vergil, Propertius, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, and Juvenal. Highet brings them life, setting them in their historical context and locating them in the physical world, while also offering crisp modern translations of the poets’ finest work. The result is an entirely sui generis amalgam of travel writing, biography, criticism, and pure poetry—altogether an unexcelled introduction to the world of the classics.

Author : Alan Roper
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421430997

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Arnold's Poetic Landscapes by Alan Roper Pdf

Originally published in 1969. Alan Roper studies the degree to which Arnold achieved a unity of human significance and literal landscape. If landscape poetry is to rise above the level of what Roper calls "country contentments in verse," the poet cannot think and describe alternately; his thinking and describing must be a part of one another. That Matthew Arnold was aware of the difficulty in achieving the necessary unity becomes clear in his own criticism, which Roper examines along with a large and representative number of Arnold's poems. Considering the latter roughly in the order they were published—except for a fuller analysis of Empedocles on Etna, "The Scholar-Gipsy," and "Thyrsis"—Roper follows important changes in Arnold's view of the function and nature of poetry as it emerged in the poems themselves. Basic to the author's critical method is a distinction between geographical sites and poetic landscapes. Focusing on the ways that Arnold and, to a lesser extent, the Augustan and Romantic poets before him untied thought and description, Roper adds a critical dimension to Arnold scholarship. Concerned not with the development of Arnold's ideas nor with their sources in classical antiquity and the Romantic period, he considers Arnold a self-conscious poet who, though sometimes successful, became increasingly unsuccessful in his efforts to imbue a landscape with meaning for individual or social man.

Author : Corey Byrnes
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231547123

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Fixing Landscape by Corey Byrnes Pdf

In 1994, workers broke ground on China’s Three Gorges Dam. By its completion in 2012, the dam had transformed the ecology of the Yangzi River, displaced over a million people, and forever altered a landscape immortalized in centuries of literature and art. The controversial history of the dam is well known; what this book uncovers are its unexpected connections to the cultural traditions it seems to sever. By reconsidering the dam in relation to the aesthetic history of the Three Gorges region over more than two millennia, Fixing Landscape offers radically new ways of thinking about cultural and spatial production in contemporary China. Corey Byrnes argues that this monumental feat of engineering can only be understood by confronting its status as a techno-poetic act, a form of landscaping indebted to both the technical knowledge of engineers and to the poetic legacies of the Gorges as cultural site. Synthesizing methods drawn from premodern, modern, and contemporary Chinese studies, as well as from critical geography, art history, and the environmental humanities, Byrnes offers innovative readings of eighth-century poetry, paintings from the twelfth through twenty-first centuries, contemporary film, nineteenth-century British travelogues, and Chinese and Western maps, among other sources. Fixing Landscape shows that premodern poetry and visual art have something urgent to tell us about a contemporary experiment in spatial production. Poems and paintings may not build dams, but Byrnes argues that the Three Gorges Dam would not exist as we know it without them.

Author : Elizabeth Mowry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Landscape in art
ISBN : 0823040674

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The Poetic Landscape by Elizabeth Mowry Pdf

An exploration of what constitutes the "poetic" in landscape painting today.t examines ways for artists in all mediums to express the poetic in theirainting. According to Elizabeth Mowry, a master of the poetic landscapeenre, a key element of his genre is evoking an emotional response in theiewer, which is achieved by the artist's arrangement of natural elements aseeply expressed through his or her imagination, intellect and feelings. Theaintings that grace these pages are all visual illustrations of the book'soncept of the poetic landscape. Paintings are examined through the specificoncerns for achieving the special sense of time and place found in theseandscapes such as colour, time of day, time of year, atmosphere and weather;s well as capturing the more illusive qualities that define this genre, suchs a sense of place recognition, leading and letting go, and grace of line.

Author : Astrid Galbraith
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015056811576

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New England as Poetic Landscape by Astrid Galbraith Pdf

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Author : Gilbert Highet
Publisher : New York : Knopf
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Italy
ISBN : UOM:39015005537629

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Poets in a Landscape by Gilbert Highet Pdf

Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, I have endeavored to recall some of the greatest Roman poets by describing the places were they lived, recreating their characters and evoking the essence of their work. The poets are Catullus, Vergil, Propertius, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, and Juvenal. Highet brings them life, setting them in their historical context and locating them in the physical world, while also offering crisp modern translations of the poets finest work. The result is an entirely sui generis amalgam of travel writing, biography, criticism, and pure poetry altogether an unexcelled introduction to the world of the classics. -- Amazon.com.

Author : Robin Skelton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Poetic Pattern by Robin Skelton Pdf

Author : Paul Naylor
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810116685

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Poetic Investigations by Paul Naylor Pdf

This text studies five contemporary writers whose radical engagements with poetic form and political content shed new light on issues of race, class and gender. In a detailed reading of three American poets - Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey and Lyn Hejinian, and two Caribbean poets, Kamau Brathwaite and M. Nourbese Philip, the book argues that these writers have produced new forms of poetry that address the holes in history that more traditional forms of poetry neglect. By refusing to limit their work to lyrical expressions of personal experience, it maintains that these writers produce poetry that explores the linguistic, historical and political conditions of contemporary culture, advancing a formally and thematically challenging critique of the ways in which women and people of colour are represented. Far from constituting a unified school of poetry however, the book argues that these five writers represent different facets of the various kinds of poetic practice taking place on the margins of contemporary culture.

Author : Valérie Malenfer Ortiz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999-06-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004644991

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Dreaming the Southern Song Landscape by Valérie Malenfer Ortiz Pdf

The masterpiece, Dream Journey in the Xiao and Xiang Rivers has been celebrated by critics throughout its long history. Now for the first time this study locates its original historical and social context, and traces its subsequent history and the role it fulfilled at various times.

Author : Ila Weiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Landscape painting
ISBN : UCSD:31822003434297

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Poetic Landscape by Ila Weiss Pdf

Author : E. Kerkham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230601871

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Matsuo Bash?’s Poetic Spaces by E. Kerkham Pdf

Haikai is an art that parodies and often subverts its linguistic, generic, and personal predecessors, and its intersections include imaginative links to the rest of Japanese literature and culture. This collection of essays explores certain neglected aspects of this haikaimaster's literary and philosophical contributions.

Author : Dr Unn Falkeid,Professor Aileen A Feng
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472427069

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Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry by Dr Unn Falkeid,Professor Aileen A Feng Pdf

Despite the status of Gaspara Stampa (1523-1554) as one of the greatest and most creative poets and musicians of the Italian Renaissance, scholarship on Stampa has been surprisingly scarce and unsystematic. In this volume, scholars from various disciplines employ contrasting methodologies to explore different aspects of Stampa’s work. The volume presents a rich introduction to, and interdisciplinary investigation of, Gaspara Stampa’s impact on Renaissance culture.

Author : Christine Gerrard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118702291

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A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry by Christine Gerrard Pdf

A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY Edited by Christine Gerrard This wide-ranging Companion reflects the dramatic transformation that has taken place in the study of eighteenth-century poetry over the past two decades. New essays by leading scholars in the field address an expanded poetic canon that now incorporates verse by many women poets and other formerly marginalized poetic voices. The volume engages with topical critical debates such as the production and consumption of literary texts, the constructions of femininity, sentiment and sensibility, enthusiasm, politics and aesthetics, and the growth of imperialism. The Companion opens with a section on contexts, considering eighteenth-century poetry’s relationships with such topics as party politics, religion, science, the visual arts, and the literary marketplace. A series of close readings of specific poems follows, ranging from familiar texts such as Pope’s The Rape of the Lock to slightly less well-known works such as Swift’s “Stella” poems and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Town Eclogues. Essays on forms and genres, and a series of more provocative contributions on significant themes and debates, complete the volume. The Companion gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry, and is designed to be used alongside David Fairer and Christine Gerrard’s Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (3rd edition, 2014).

Author : Mary Ellen Birkett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015012836832

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Lamartine and the Poetics of Landscape by Mary Ellen Birkett Pdf