A Romance With The Landscape

Author : Andrew M. Richmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108913091
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape in Middle English Romance written by Andrew M. Richmond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our current ecological crises compel us not only to understand how contemporary media shapes our conceptions of human relationships with the environment, but also to examine the historical genealogies of such perspectives. Written during the onset of the Little Ice Age in Britain, Middle English romances provide a fascinating window into the worldviews of popular vernacular literature (and its audiences) at the close of the Middle Ages. Andrew M. Richmond shows how literary conventions of romances shaped and were in turn influenced by contemporary perspectives on the natural world. These popular texts also reveal widespread concern regarding the damaging effects of human actions and climate change. The natural world was a constant presence in the writing, thoughts, and lives of the audiences and authors of medieval English romance – and these close readings reveal that our environmental concerns go back further in our history and culture than we think.

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307791777
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girl in Landscape written by Jonathan Lethem and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girl in Landscape is a daring exploration of the violent nature of sexual awakening, a meditation on language and perception, and an homage to the great American tradition of the Western. • "Jonathan Lethem's imagination [is]...marvelously fertile." --Newsday The heroine is young Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just before her family flees a post-apocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Hating her ineffectual father, and troubled by a powerful attraction to a virile but dangerous loner who holds sway over the little colony, Pella sets out on a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences for the humans in the community and the ancient inhabitants, known only as archbuilders. Girl in Landscape finds Jonathan Lethem twisting forms and literary conventions to create a dazzling, completely unconventional tale.

Author : Yi-Fu Tuan
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299296830
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romantic Geography written by Yi-Fu Tuan and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geography is useful, indeed necessary, to survival. Everyone must know where to find food, water, and a place of rest, and, in the modern world, all must make an effort to make the Earth -- our home -- habitable. But much present-day geography lacks drama, with its maps and statistics, descriptions and analysis, but no acts of chivalry, no sense of quest. Not long ago, however, geography was romantic. Heroic explorers ventured to forbidding environments -- oceans, mountains, forests, caves, deserts, polar ice caps -- to test their power of endurance for reasons they couldn't fully articulate. Why climb Everest? "Because it is there." In this book, the author considers the human tendency -- stronger in some cultures than in others -- to veer away from the middle ground of common sense to embrace the polarized values of light and darkness, high and low, chaos and form, mind and body. In so doing, venturesome humans can find salvation in geographies that cater not so much to survival needs (or even to good, comfortable living) as to the passionate and romantic aspirations of their nature

Author : Gail Ward Olmsted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781685134525
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape of a Marriage written by Gail Ward Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A marriage of convenience leads to a life of passion and purpose and a shared vision transforms the American landscape forever.

Author : Janie Margaret Welker
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Romance with the Landscape written by Janie Margaret Welker and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century France produced a cadre of artists whose first impulse was to escape the turmoil of Paris and seek refuge in the countryside, where they created an art grounded in their fresh responses to the natural world. Such artists as Charles Emile Jacque and Jean-Francois Millet discovered a quiet heroism and even a spiritual quality in those working the land, while others, like Julien Dupr(c), featured attractive young laborers toiling in picturesque settings that did not hint of hard work or the often harsh realities of agricultural labor. Social and political ideologies are coded into the landscape in subtle ways in many paintings. Rarely seen paintings from public and private collections illustrate the metamorphosis from the neoclassical ideal to the Modern over the course of the nineteenth century through the lens of landscape art. Contributors include Gabriel P. Weisberg and Janet Whitmore.

Author : Thomas Addison Richards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romance of American Landscape written by Thomas Addison Richards and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : F. Claudius ARMSTRONG
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Neapolitan Commander, a romance of sea & land written by F. Claudius ARMSTRONG and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barry England
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473573874
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Figures in a Landscape written by Barry England and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Masterful and beautifully written. Riveting and compellingly authentic. Grips you like a vice from the first page and never lets you go' Damien Lewis Two men are on the run. They have four hundred miles to go across hostile territory. Soldiers on the ground track them day and night, a helicopter circles above, life becomes a second-by-second fight for survival. Each muscle movement, drop of sweat, glance and instinct matters. Every second counts. Through long slogs across country, risky raids for supplies, moments of sheer panic, and under the intense pressure to survive, an unbreakable bond between two men is forged. This stunningly written, adrenaline-pumping novel is a little-known classic of its genre. SHORTLISTED FOR THE FIRST EVER BOOKER PRIZE IN 1969 ‘England's prose has the tough, spare elegance of steel scaffolding... a brilliant achievement’ The Times

Author : Jude Deveraux
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062135783
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enchanted Land written by Jude Deveraux and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman who could not be conquered . . . A love that was never forsaken . . . A land that will not be forgotten . . . For beautiful Morgan Wakefield, the enchanted land is the ranch in New Mexico her father has left her. But the only way for her to inherit is if she lives there for a year with a husband. And so Morgan proposes a marriage of convenience to a man she just met—handsomely rugged rancher Seth Colter. In Seth's powerful embrace, Morgan discovers a passion she never knew existed, and an unexpected new love blossoms between them. But devastating challenges and betrayal conspire against these lovers, and they will have to fight for a future together on this wild, enchanted land.

Author : Catherine Reid
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604698586
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables written by Catherine Reid and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book will be treasured by Montgomery’s legions of fans.” —Carolyn Strom Collins, author of The Anne of Green Gables Treasury The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables explores L. M. Montgomery’s deep connection to the landscapes of Prince Edward Island that inspired her to write the beloved Anne of Green Gables series. From the Lake of Shining Waters and the Haunted Wood to Lover’s Lane, you’ll be immersed in the real places immortalized in the novels. Using Montgomery’s journals, archives, and scrapbooks, Catherine Reid explores the many similarities between Montgomery and her unforgettable heroine, Anne Shirley. The lush package includes Montgomery’s hand-colorized photographs, the illustrations originally used in Anne of Green Gables, and contemporary and historical photography.