Author: Jacopo SannazaroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Arcadia & Piscatorial eclogues (Arcadia, engl.- Eclogae piscatoriae, engl.)
Author: Jacopo SannazaroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Arcadian Waters and Wanton Seas
Author: Arne NesetPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433102974
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The nineteenth century was the great age of landscape painting in Europe and America. In an era of rapid industrialization and transformation of landscape, pictures of natural scenes were what people wanted most to display in their homes. The most popular and marketable pictures, often degenerating into kitsch, showed a wilderness with a pond or a lake in which obtrusive signs of industry and civilization had been edited out. Inspired by Romantic ideas of the uniqueness of the nation, pictorial and literary art was supposed to portray the «soul» of the nation and the spirit of place, a view commonly adopted by cultural and art historians on both sides of the Atlantic. Arcadian Waters and Wanton Seas argues that nationalistic or exceptionalist interpretations disregard deep-rooted iconological traditions in transatlantic culture. Depictions and ideas of nature go back to the classical ideas of Arcadia and Eden in which fountains, ponds, lakes, rivers, and finally the sea itself are central elements. Following their European colleagues, American artists typically portrayed the American Arcadia through the classical conventions. Arcadian Waters and Wanton Seas adopts the interdisciplinary and comparative methodological perspectives that characterize American studies. The book draws on art history, cultural history, literature, and the study of the production and use of visual images, and will serve well as a textbook for courses on American studies or cultural history of the Western world.
Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J
Author: Gaetana MarronePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1579583903
Category : Italian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2258
Book Description
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Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies
Author: Gaetana MarronePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135455295
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 2258
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies is a two-volume reference book containing some 600 entries on all aspects of Italian literary culture. It includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the most important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential to the field. The Encyclopedia is distinguished by substantial articles on critics, themes, genres, schools, historical surveys, and other topics related to the overall subject of Italian literary studies. The Encyclopedia also includes writers and subjects of contemporary interest, such as those relating to journalism, film, media, children's literature, food and vernacular literatures. Entries consist of an essay on the topic and a bibliographic portion listing works for further reading, and, in the case of entries on individuals, a brief biographical paragraph and list of works by the person. It will be useful to people without specialized knowledge of Italian literature as well as to scholars.
Environment, Society, and The Compleat Angler
Author: Marjorie SwannPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271096586
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
First published in 1653, The Compleat Angler is one of the most influential environmental texts ever written. Addressing a politically and religiously polarized nation devastated by warfare, disease, ecological degradation, and climate change, Izaak Walton’s famous fishing treatise stages a radical thought experiment: how might humanity’s enhanced relationship with the natural world generate a new kind of sustaining—and sustainable—social order beyond the traditional boundaries of the church, the state, and the biological family? Challenging the current scholarly consensus that reads Walton’s how-to manual as a conservative polemic camouflaged by fishlore, Marjorie Swann examines this richly complicated portrayal of the natural world through an ecocritical lens and explores other neglected aspects of Walton’s writings, including his depictions of social hierarchy, gender, and sexuality. In the process, Swann analyzes a host of noncanonical environmental texts and provides a groundbreaking reappraisal of Charles Cotton’s “Part II” of The Compleat Angler. This study extends the hydrological turn in early modern ecocriticism and demonstrates how, as a genre, angling manuals provide new insights into the environmental, cultural, social, and literary history of early modern England. Taking its place alongside landmark works of ecocriticism such as Green Shakespeare and Milton and Ecology, this fresh and timely reassessment of The Compleat Angler rightly ranks Izaak Walton among the most important environmental writers of the early modern era.
Latin Poetry
Author: Jacopo SannazaroPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674034068
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Sannazaro (1456-1530) is most famous for having written the first pastoral romance in European literature, the Arcadia (1504). But after this work, he devoted himself entirely to Latin poetry modeled on his beloved Virgil. In addition to his epic The Virgin Birth (1526), he also composed Piscatory Eclogues, an adaption of the eclogue form.
Humanistica Lovaniensia
Author: Gilbert TournoyPublisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9789058671721
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Volume 50
English Pastoral Poetry
Author: James SambrookPublisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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