Landscape And MemoryKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995 - 672 pagina's A Time Magazine Best Books of the Year. In Landscape and Memory, award-winning author Simon Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers; and the duel between a monumental sculptor and a feminist gadfly on the slopes of Mount Rushmore. The result is a triumphant work of history, naturalism, mythology, and art, as encyclopedic as The Golden Bough and as irresistibly readable as Schama's own Citizens. "A work of great ambition and enormous intellectual scope...consistently provocative and revealing."--New York Times "Extraordinary...a summary cannot convey the riches of this book. It will absorb, instruct, and fascinate."--New York Review of Books |
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Pagina 134
... myth is good for us ? And how can we measure the dosage ? Should we avoid the stuff altogether for fear of contamination or dismiss it out of hand as sinister and irrational esoterica that belong only in the unsavory mar- gins of " real ...
... myth is good for us ? And how can we measure the dosage ? Should we avoid the stuff altogether for fear of contamination or dismiss it out of hand as sinister and irrational esoterica that belong only in the unsavory mar- gins of " real ...
Pagina 209
... myth and to readmit primitive religion in social behavior was not , for Jung , to flee modernity but to face up to it . But not all those who acknowledged the fateful braiding together of myth and modernity were so satisfied with its ...
... myth and to readmit primitive religion in social behavior was not , for Jung , to flee modernity but to face up to it . But not all those who acknowledged the fateful braiding together of myth and modernity were so satisfied with its ...
Pagina 255
... myth for the posterity of Western culture . Doubtless the Ptolemies , the Hellenized rulers of Egypt , from the time of Alexander onward , embellished the myth precisely to make Egyptian and Greek traditions more compatible . " Sarapis ...
... myth for the posterity of Western culture . Doubtless the Ptolemies , the Hellenized rulers of Egypt , from the time of Alexander onward , embellished the myth precisely to make Egyptian and Greek traditions more compatible . " Sarapis ...
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