The picturesque and the sublime : a poetics of the Canadian landscape /

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"The Picturesque and the Sublime is a cultural history of two hundred years of nature writing in Canada, from eighteenth-century prospect poems to contemporary encounters with landscape. Arguing against the received wisdom (made popular by Northrop Frye and Margaret Atwood) that Canadian writer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Glickman, Susan, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1998.
Temas:
Canadian poetry > History and criticism.
Landscapes in literature.
Picturesque, The, in literature.
Sublime, The, in literature.
Nature in literature.
Canadian poetry > Themes, motives.
Canadian poetry (English) > History and criticism.
Poésie canadienne-anglaise > Thèmes, motifs.
Paysages dans la littérature.
Nature dans la littérature.
Pittoresque dans la littérature.
Sublime dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Canadian.
Canadian poetry.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • An introductory ramble through the picturesque and the sublime
  • Candian prospects: Abram's Plain and Quebec Hill in context
  • "After the beauty of terror the beauty of peace" : notes on the Canadian sublime
  • The waxing and waning of Susanna Moodie's "Enthusiasm"
  • "The keen stars' conflicting message" : Wordsworth, Shelley, and Charles G.D. Roberts' ave
  • New provinces?, or, in Acadia, no ego
  • Song to the rising sun.

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