Landscape and MemoryA.A. Knopf, 1995 - 652 pagina's "Opening a radically new and original path into history, Simon Schama explores the scenery of our Western culture, both real landscapes and landscapes of the mind that have given us our sense of homeland, the dark woods of our imagined origins. What unfolds is a series of compelling journeys through space and time: from the ancient woodland of Poland, a symbol over the centuries of national endurance, through the forest birthplace of the German psyche, to the Big Trees of Yosemite that gave a new nation its holy past. Through all of history, from pre-classical antiquity to the Third Reich and beyond, Schama uncovers the myths and memories that have stamped themselves on our most basic social instincts and institutions: territorial identity, the wild and domestic, mortality and immortality."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... imagined the life of rivers . Were they not figured as bodies of water because , since antiquity , their flow was likened to the blood circulating through the body ? Plato had believed the cir- cle to be the perfect form , and imagined ...
... imagined the life of rivers . Were they not figured as bodies of water because , since antiquity , their flow was likened to the blood circulating through the body ? Plato had believed the cir- cle to be the perfect form , and imagined ...
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... imagined a cascade forc- ing its way through a cleft in a solid wall of rock . That is what George Sandys supposed he might find somewhere above Nubia in 1610 ; what " Abyssinian " Bruce hoped to have revealed in the Ethiopian Mountains ...
... imagined a cascade forc- ing its way through a cleft in a solid wall of rock . That is what George Sandys supposed he might find somewhere above Nubia in 1610 ; what " Abyssinian " Bruce hoped to have revealed in the Ethiopian Mountains ...
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... imagined as abhorrent . On the con- trary , it was equated with the fecundity of nature . Pan's own name signified " everything . " And on some occasions he was needed to stir life from barren- ness . When Hades abducted Persephone into ...
... imagined as abhorrent . On the con- trary , it was equated with the fecundity of nature . Pan's own name signified " everything . " And on some occasions he was needed to stir life from barren- ness . When Hades abducted Persephone into ...
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The Detour | 23 |
CHAPTER ONE In the Realm of the Lithuanian Bison | 37 |
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Aby Warburg Alpine Alps American ancient Anselm Kiefer arcadia architecture artist Barlow became beneath Bernini Białowieża bison Borglum British Caspar David Friedrich century Christian church classical climb color illus course Cozens cross cult culture death Denecourt Dinocrates Egypt Egyptian emblem Empire England English engraving essay famous father fluvial forest France French garden German Gothic Gray grotto groves Gutzon Borglum hills holy hunting hydraulic Ibid imagined imperial J. M. W. Turner John John Robert Cozens king land landscape liberty Lithuanian living London memory Mont Blanc Mount Mount Rushmore mountain myth nature Nile obelisk original Osiris pagan painting Paris park Piazza Navona poet Polish Ralegh Ramond Renaissance rock Roman Rome royal Rushmore sacred scenery seemed stone sublime symbols Tacitus temple Thames Thomas Thomas Cole thought timber tion tradition travellers tree turned village Warburg wild wilderness William woodland woods Yosemite