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Poetry, Space, Landscape - Toward a New Theory (Paperback, Revised)
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Poetry, Space, Landscape - Toward a New Theory (Paperback, Revised)
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Why was the art of landscape painting invented in the fifth century
BC, abandoned with the collapse of Rome, and revived again in the
High Middle Ages? Did the Greeks, or the ancient Christians,
perceive the natural world differently from the way we do now? In
Poetry, space, landscape Chris Fitter traces the history of
nature-sensibility from the ancient world to the English
Renaissance, setting poems and paintings in the widely differing
cultural contexts that created them. He suggests a new social and
historical theory of the conceptualization of space, explaining the
rise and fall of the idea of 'landscape'. And he argues the
dialectical case that enduring basic categories of perception
create different readings of natural reality determined by our
social and material relations with nature. A chapter on
seventeenth-century English poetry concludes with fresh and
substantial re-readings of Milton, Marvell, and many of their
contemporaries in the light of this long tradition of landscape
art.
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