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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... theater were interchangeable : court ritual was theater — that is to say , spectacle . To produce magnificent spectacle , a great Renaissance prince had to have not only craftsmen and laborers but machines at his command . We tend to ...
... theater where the illusive world of masque and theater scenery merged with the political world of actual courtiers and monarchs . Now , it was as if this " masqued , " designed world had been moved out of the theater and court into the ...
... theater , in this way , reflected a place , but now it was indoors , and the performances were under the command of the local prince or oligarchy . Kernodle comments upon the oddity , still appar- ent in some theaters to this day , that ...
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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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