172 research outputs found

    The End of Everything: The Physical and Figurative Impacts of Landscape on American Ideology

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    Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

    Transient dwelling in German-language nature essay writing: W.G. Sebald’s "Die Alpen im Meer" and Peter Handke’s "Die Lehre der Sainte-Victoire"

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    Identidad, lugar y el sentimiento de pertenencia a una región específica son factores que han caracterizado la mayor parte de la escritura de la naturaleza de los siglos XX y XXI en toda Europa. Este artículo razona que la escritura de la naturaleza en lengua alemana es no obstante un caso especial. A causa de la apropiación de los conceptos anteriormente mencionados por parte de los nazis en su doctrina de Sangre y Suelo, las relaciones con el paisaje nacional se volvieron problemáticas para la mayoría de la generación post-Shoah de escritores. Siendo natural de una nación que antes utilizaba conceptos como pertenencia y Heimat para justificar el genocidio de grupos no-arios, ya no existen posiciones inocentes e identificatorias hacia la naturaleza. Por eso no es casualidad que tanto W.G. Sebald en Los Alpes en el mar y Peter Handke en La doctrina del Sainte-Victoire se centren en paisajes extranjeros. En vez de ocuparse de una región específica de Alemania o Austria, a las que pertenecen, describen excursiones por Córcega y Francia. Asociando sus experiencias en esta naturaleza con otras regiones, con la historia y el arte, establecen un panorama verdaderamente europeo y crean una estética de pertenencia temporal. La forma del ensayo literario en el que las digresiones, las contemplaciones extensas y los cambios discursivos súbitos son típicos, les permite combinar una serie de perspectivas distintitas sobre la naturaleza. Además, las divagaciones del ensayo se corresponden con las dificultades de los autores a la hora de luchan con una identidad enraizada en un suelo especifico. Y aun así se difunde un sentido de perdida, representado en forma de metanarración de expulsión.Identity, place, and a sense of belonging to a specific region are factors which have shaped most twentieth and twenty-first century nature writing throughout Europe. This article argues that Germanlanguage nature writing is, however, a special case. Due to the appropriation of the aforementioned concepts in the Nazis’ Blood and Soil doctrine, relations to a national landscape have become problematic for most post-Shoah generation writers. Born into a nation for which belonging and Heimat once were used as a means to justify the genocide of non-Aryan groups, access to an innocent, identificatory approach to nature is cut off. It is therefore no coincidence that both W.G. Sebald in The Alps in the Sea and Peter Handke in Lesson of Montagne Sainte-Victoire turn towards foreign landscape. Instead of pondering upon a specific German or Austrian region they belong to, they describe walks through Corsica and France. By linking their experience of these surroundings to other regions, to history and art, they create a truly European panorama and establish an aesthetics of transient dwelling. The form of the literary essay for which digressions, lengthy contemplations and sudden changes of discourse are typical enables them to combine a set of different perspectives on nature. Besides, the essay’s meandering form matches their struggle with an identity rooted in a specific soil. And still, a sense of loss, represented in the guise of an expulsion metanarrative, pervades

    Les jardins exotiques: Early French Romanticism and Its Impact on Travel Inspired Nineteenth-Century French Gardens

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    Les jardins exotiques: Early French Romanticism and Its Impact on Travel Inspired Nineteenth-Century French Garden

    Four Quarters: Summer 1976 Vol. XXV, No. 4

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    Old Southwest humor from the St. Louis reveille, 1844-1850

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    Includes glossary and textual apparatus.This book collects selected humorous essays from the Daily Reveille, a St. Louis daily journal, from the years 1844-1850.Hoaxes and predicaments. The second advent ; 'Squire Squegle's twelve ; June bugs ; The man who was looked at ; A crawfish story ; Puss-eyeism vs. Mormonism ; Dropping the subject ; Speculation in whiskers, or, shaving in a broker's office ; "That last julep!" : a short temperance story! ; An incident before marriage -- The river. Captain Sopht ; "Passenger ashore" ; "Fast on a bar" ; Of the deference due to steamboat waiters ; A fight in the hold ; "Picked up!" ; Tom Harris' wink ; A free country ; The "Three sixes" : a pilot's dream ; Bob White's adventure at Vicksburg ; Who's at the wheel? -- Ring-tailed roarers and tall tales. Squire Funk's awful mistake ; Lige Shattuck's reminiscences of Mike Fink ; Judge Magraw's yarn about a mocking bird and a jackass ; A buffalo tale : from the papers of the late John Brown ; A great blow out in Michigan ; "Panther Evans" ; "Fighting the tiger" -- Frontier theater. A fifth act resurrection ; The flying machine ; Stage directions ; Behind the scenes ; "Old sol" : once more ; Getting on the "Free list" ; Manager for a minute ; Getting rid of Brandon -- Eccentric characters. "Loafer Jim" ; The ambitious man ; Kicking a yankee ; "Kicking a yankee" ; Queer characters ; A sucker in search of the planters' house ; "Solitaire" and a Peter funk ; Full of life ; The lethean! -- Army life. Tennessee tactics ; A night attack ; Whipping a circus ; The barrel movement : a sketch of camp life on the Rio Grande ; The nimble shilling! : a sketch of early history -- A satiric look at frontier institutions. Valor and its "Better part" ; A duel in Fairview : being a sequel to the historical society (from the papers of the late John Brown) ; The pumpkin dance and moonlight race. One of the western border tales ; Khaustiff correspondence ; A lyncher's own story ; Popular entertainments -- "The fun of our settlement." Eight letters by Bill Sapper to his cousin.Digitized at the University of Missouri--Columbia MU Libraries Digitization Lab in 2012. Digitized at 600 dpi with Zeutschel, OS 15000 scanner. Access copy, available in MOspace, is 400 dpi, grayscale

    Heritage in the Clouds: Englishness in the Dolomites

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    Guided by the romantic compass of Byron, Ruskin and Turner, Victorian travellers to the Dolomites sketched through their wanderings in the mountainous backdrop of Venice a cultural ‘Petit Tour’ of global significance. As they zigzagged across a debatable land consumed by competing frontiers, Victorians discovered a unique geography characterized by untrodden peaks and unfrequented valleys. This landscape blended aesthetic, scientific and cultural values utterly different from those engendered by the bombastic conquests of the Western Alps achieved during the ‘Golden Age of Mountaineering’. Filtered through the cultivated lens of the Venetian Grand Tour, their encounter with the Dolomites is marked by a series of distinct cultural practices that paradigmatically define what I call the ‘Silver Age of Mountaineering’. These cultural practices, magnetized by symbols of Englishness, reveal a range of geographic concerns that are more ethnographic than imperialistic, more feminine than masculine, more artistic than sportive – rather than racing to summits, the Silver Age is about rambling, rather than conquering peaks, it is about sketching them in fully articulated interaction with the Dolomite landscape. Through these practices, the Dolomite Mountains came to be known in England as ‘Titian Country’, spurring among Victorian travellers the sentimental drive to ramble in the backgrounds of Titian’s paintings. Freed from their historical conditions and rehashed in different discursive patterns, these symbols of Englishness re-emerge through a history collapsed through geography: a heritage that is subtly, if controversially, exploited today in the wake of the recent inscription of the Dolomites onto the UNESCO World Heritage List
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