Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World

Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 730
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781527554030
ISBN-13 : 1527554031
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World by : Françoise Besson

Download or read book Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World written by Françoise Besson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book, written by poets, novelists, mountain-climbers and academics from all over the world, evoke the representation of mountains in the English-speaking world as artists, writers, philosophers or mountain-climbers have represented them from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the Alps to the Pyrenees, from Mount Fuji to Mount Shasta, from the Himalayas to the Scottish Highlands, from Ikere in Nigeria to Devil's Tower in the United States, from Uluru in Australia to the most northern mountain of the Arctic, the shapes of the world speak the same language and tell the world its own story. This interdisciplinary book, weaving together mountaineering, literature, philosophy, painting, cinema, ecology, history, palaeontology, geography, geopolitics, toponymy, law, religion and myth, invites people to an innovative reading of mountains: it reveals the close relationship existing between the shapes of the world and all forms of writing and, at the same time, it shows how the representations of the imagination may be instrumental in protecting the natural world. The story told by the landscape inscribes a broken line in the shapes of the world, tearing the landscape like a fragile page whenever historical and political events (wars, mining or deforestation) leave scars in the landscape; but writers' and artists' representations of mountains constitute a path to awareness as they are not only a painting of beauty, but an image of our link to nature and a warning as well. For centuries the image of the mountain has conveyed a symbolism telling the story of human thought, and this book shows to what extent literature and art play an essential part in our awareness of nature.


Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World Related Books

Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World
Language: en
Pages: 730
Authors: Françoise Besson
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-01 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The essays in this book, written by poets, novelists, mountain-climbers and academics from all over the world, evoke the representation of mountains in the Engl
A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English
Language: en
Pages: 253
Authors: Sherri L. Brown
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-15 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Gothic began as a designation for barbarian tribes, was associated with the cathedrals of the High Middle Ages, was used to describe a marginalized literatu
The Memory of Nature in Aboriginal, Canadian and American Contexts
Language: en
Pages: 382
Authors: Françoise Besson
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-12 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume engages the reader’s interest in the relationship that binds man to nature, a relationship which makes itself manifest through certain literary or
Mountains, Climate and Biodiversity
Language: en
Pages: 595
Authors: Carina Hoorn
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-22 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Mountains, Climate and Biodiversity: A comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis for students and researchers Mountains are topographically complex formations that
Religious Horror and the Ecogothic
Language: en
Pages: 283
Authors: Mary Going
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-06-10 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Religious Horror and the Ecogothic explores the intersections of Anglophone Christianity and the Ecogothic, a subgenre that explores the ecocritical in Gothic l