Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late RenaissanceUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. máj. 29. - 448 oldal Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title |
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... looks to modern eyes like early environmentalist sentiment—what would later evolve into that sentiment— originally functioned as ... look back penitently from the ivory tower toward the planted rather than the tented field.1 In any case ...
... look like a healthy adaptation at one moment, a sinister co-optation at another. It would be wrong to sophisticate away the growing ecological and envi- ronmental mission, all the more wrong because it would be so convenient; wrong to ...
... look past the immediately apparent physi- cal reality to the more exalted, bookish truth behind it—a good joke for an era trying to laugh off a thousand years of Western European ontology that deemed the world a mere delusive figure of ...
... look for the simple, redemptive, original truth were also questers like Lot or Jesus, Orpheus or Hercules, on a rescue mission through a ghastly infernal landscape with only their purity and determination (and a few slogans) to protect ...
... look at the eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79 C.E. of- fers another poignant emblem of the same point : ashes to ashes . Bacon turned to the ancient sources of knowledge for the sake of turning readers against them , or at least for ...
Tartalomjegyzék
Paradoxes Alienation from Nature in English Literature | 75 |
Reformations Protestant Politics Poetics and Paintings | 135 |
Solutions The Consolations of Mediation | 255 |
Conclusion | 324 |
Notes | 337 |
Bibliography | 397 |
Index | 419 |
Acknowledgments | 437 |
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