Poetry, Space, Landscape : Toward a New Theory
by
Chris Fitter
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521673496
ISBN-13
9780521673495
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 30th, 2005
Print length
356 Pages
Weight
470 grams
Dimensions
13.90 x 21.70 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Literary theory
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In this survey of nature-sensibility from the ancient world to the Renaissance Chris Fitter suggests a new social and historical theory of the conceptualisation of space, and argues that readings of natural reality are determined by our social and material relations with nature.
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 conceptualisation of space, explaining the rise and fall of the idea of 'landscape'. And he argues that enduring basic categories of perception create different readings of natural reality determined by our social and material relations with nature.
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