Landscape and memoryOne of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year In Landscape and Memory 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. "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 191
The sequoias seemed to vindicate the American national intuition that colossal
grandeur spoke to the soul. It was precisely because the red columns of this
sublimely American temple had not been constructed by the hand of man that
they ...
The sequoias seemed to vindicate the American national intuition that colossal
grandeur spoke to the soul. It was precisely because the red columns of this
sublimely American temple had not been constructed by the hand of man that
they ...
Pagina 241
The women seemed always to be bringing lemon seedcake and beer to the
campsite and tending wounds and broken bones. The grim poverty, terrors, and
loss of limb the children could learn about some other day in more bleakly
exhaustive ...
The women seemed always to be bringing lemon seedcake and beer to the
campsite and tending wounds and broken bones. The grim poverty, terrors, and
loss of limb the children could learn about some other day in more bleakly
exhaustive ...
Pagina 549
The July Revolution of 1830 that brought the "citizen king," Louis- Philippe, to the
throne seemed to promise better things. Yet the Orleanist governments,
especially those run by ex-Napoleonic marshals, were even less hospitable to
those ...
The July Revolution of 1830 that brought the "citizen king," Louis- Philippe, to the
throne seemed to promise better things. Yet the Orleanist governments,
especially those run by ex-Napoleonic marshals, were even less hospitable to
those ...
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LANDSCAPE AND MEMORY
Gebruikersrecensie - KirkusWith this fascinating, encyclopedic survey of cultural landscapes, Schama (Dead Certainties, 1991, etc.) demonstrates once again just why he holds a charmed place in the literature of historical ... Volledige review lezen
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Gebruikersrecensie - JayLivernois - LibraryThingI find this a hard book to finish. It is one of those books it seems difficult to get into although the material is interesting and the thought good. Volledige review lezen
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 3 |
Prologue The Detour | 23 |
CHAPTER ONE In the Realm of the Lithuanian Bison | 37 |
Copyright | |
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Alpine Alps American ancient animals Anselm Kiefer arcadia architecture artist Barlow became beneath Bernini Bialowieza bison Borglum British Cambridge Caspar David Friedrich century Chamonix Christian church classical climb color illus course cross cult culture death Denecourt Dinocrates E. H. Gombrich eighteenth Empire England English essay Fontainebleau forest France French garden German Gothic greenwood groves Gutzon Borglum Hermannsdenkmal hills holy hunting Ibid imagined imperial Jews John John Robert Cozens Kiefer king Kowno land landscape Lithuanian living London medieval memory Mickiewicz modern Mont Blanc Mount Mount Rushmore mountain myth nature Nile obelisk original Osiris pagan painting Pan Tadeusz Paris park patriotic poet Poland Polish primitive Ralegh Ramond Renaissance river rock Roman Rome royal Ruskin sacred scenery seemed Senancour stone symbol Tacitus Tadeusz temple Thames Thomas thought timber tion tradition trees turned village Warburg wild wilderness William woodland woods York
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Landscape and memory Univers historique |
| Auteur | Simon Schama |
| Editie | geļllustreerd |
| Uitgever | A.A. Knopf, 1995 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de University of California |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 14 juli 2008 |
| Lengte | 652 pagina's |
| Citatie exporteren | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |