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. |
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... mirror becomes pertinent . The metaphor is simple , and thus especially ingenious . A mirror can be seen to function as a model because when people see themselves in one they inevitably begin to straighten their clothes and hair . The ...
... mirror of nature and the regular ge- ometrical laws of the infinite universe helps explain why Brunelleschi used a mirror to demonstrate the veracity of the technique of perspective draw- ing . As with the stereo illusion in the ...
... mirror and other optical devices identified with the mirror ( Wheelock 1977 , 143-45 ; MWC10 : theater , mirror ) . At this time , to play upon a stage was “ to hold as ' twere the mirror up to Nature " ( Shakespeare 1948 , 628 [ Hamlet ...
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