Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic: From Britain's Renaissance to America's New WorldUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 14. 6. 2002 - 299 strán (strany) Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic explores the origins and lasting influences of two contesting but intertwined discourses that persist today when we use the words landscape, country, scenery, nature, national. In the first sense, the land is a physical and bounded body of terrain upon which the nation state is constructed (e.g., the purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain, from sea to shining sea). In the second, the country is constituted through its people and established through time and precedence (e.g., land where our fathers died, land of the Pilgrims’ pride). Kenneth Robert Olwig’s extended exploration of these discourses is a masterful work of scholarship both broad and deep, which opens up new avenues of thinking in the areas of geography, literature, theater, history, political science, law, and environmental studies. |
Vyhľadávanie v obsahu knihy
Výsledky 1 - 3 z 73.
... meaning of landscape as a concept . These subtexts are concerned with the interlinked meanings of landscape and nature and with the ways they have variously been used to define country and the place of the body politic . I approach ...
... meaning . The country of England is , thus , also a land - the land of the English . The ety- mologically primary Germanic meaning of Land was an area , such as the various lands constituting a farm or manor ( e.g. , cultivated land ...
... meaning . ( Tuan 1974a , 213 ) The word Landschaft fits this meaning of place well . The ensemble of cus- toms defining the Landschaft was considered to be unique to each place , incarnating the experiences and aspirations of its people ...
Obsah
The Political Landscape as Polity and Place | 3 |
Country and Landscape | 43 |
Masquing the Body Politic of Britain | 62 |
Autorské práva | |
8 zvyšných častí nezobrazených