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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... reflected the social face of the landscape polity both when things went well and when dikes failed and disaster struck . The physical environment was a reflection of the political landscape . This reflection suggests the metaphor of the ...
... reflected in people's behavior ( OED : mirror II : 5 ; spectacle II : 5 ) . The Sachsenspiegel reflected the common , customary laws of the land . A spectacle , however , need not reflect . It can also be a lens , as in a pair of ...
... reflection in a lake of the moon goddess Aetheopia , who declaims : I was that bright face Reflected by the lake , in which thy race Read mystic lines ; which skill Pythagoras First taught to men by a reverberate [ reflecting ] glass ...
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The Political Landscape as Polity and Place | 3 |
Country and Landscape | 43 |
Masquing the Body Politic of Britain | 62 |
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