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Countries of the Mind - The Meaning of Place to Writers (Paperback, Main)
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Countries of the Mind - The Meaning of Place to Writers (Paperback, Main)
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'Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always
colours the happening and often, to a degree, shapes it ...'
Elizabeth Bowen This compelling study explores the way the great
themes of English and French fiction in the past two centuries have
been expressed through writers' sense of place. Gillian Tindall
shows how familiar landscapes - whether Yorkshire moors or Paris
streets - can acquire the force of powerful metaphors: rural scenes
which embody regret for a golden past; cities which come to stand,
paradoxically, both for decay and alienation and for hopes of a new
life; country houses which survive in the memory as repositories of
youthful dreams, spiritual mansions of the soul. A subtle and
complex argument develops, through illuminating and detailed
reading of a host of novelists, from Dickens and Zola to Alain
Fournier and Evelyn Waugh. The result is a highly original view of
two complementary cultures, a book which asks us to take a fresh
look at the way in which writers map out and inhabit their own
particular countries of the mind.
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