ISBN: 9780773521353

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… More...

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. Books List_Books, [PU: McGill-Queen's University Press]<

ISBN: 9780773521353

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: McGill-Queen's University Press], Winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize in English and the Raymond Klibansky Prize, The Picturesque and the Sublime is a cultural histo… More...

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: McGill-Queen's University Press], Winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize in English and the Raymond Klibansky Prize, 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 writers view nature as hostile, Susan Glickman places Canadian literature in the English and European traditions of the sublime and the picturesque. Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten)<

ISBN: 9780773521353

Paperback, [PU: McGill-Queen's University Press], Presents the cultural history of two hundred years of nature writing in Canada, from eighteenth-century prospect poems to contemporary en… More...

Paperback, [PU: McGill-Queen's University Press], Presents the cultural history of two hundred years of nature writing in Canada, from eighteenth-century prospect poems to contemporary encounters with landscape. Arguing that Canadian writers view nature as hostile, this work places Canadian literature in the English and European traditions of the sublime and the picturesque., Literature: History & Criticism<

2000, ISBN: 9780773521353

A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape, Buch, Softcover, [PU: McGill-Queen's University Press], McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000

2000, ISBN: 9780773521353

A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape, Softcover, Buch, [PU: McGill-Queen's University Press]