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Ladataan... Landscape and Memory (1995)Tekijä: Simon Schama
   Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta.   BJMacauley | Jul 30, 2023 |  Pat_Gibson | Jun 8, 2019 | Doesn't make for smooth bedside reading... My eyes would capitulate after a couple of pages. It is highly interesting and Schama tries hard to make the reading entertaining, but it remains scientific and in parts highly speculative. His line of reasoning is not always easy to follow and I couldn't always detect a red line between the places that he presents and how they are perceived and how they mirror the society of a certain time. Lastly, some contents have been put in quite arbitrarily - at least that's what it seems to me. Kindlegohome | Jul 9, 2015 |  ) JayLivernois | May 13, 2010 |  )6  bibliothecarivs | Mar 6, 2010 |
In various cultures, both classic and contemporary, the author studies myths and how they relate to landscapes. Repeatedly, the subject of an idyllic, pastoral place, an Arcadia, arises. In the last chapter, he focuses briefly on Central Park, praising its designer, Frederick Law Olmsted, for his vision of a heroic urban Arcadia. For Mr. Schama, Central Park seems to encapsulate the double-sided nature of the Arcadian concept. The dreamlike version is, he said, "a place of effortless bucolic sweetness, where you can lie on your back and smell the grass while there's a faint noise of people hitting balls with bats." The nightmare version is "a slightly scary, sinister, dense place of sex and death." PalkinnotNotable Lists
Opening a radically new and original path into history, Simon Schama explores the scenery of our Western culture, both real landscapes and landscapes of the mind that have given us our sense of homeland, the dark woods of our imagined origins. What unfolds is a series of compelling journeys through space and time: from the ancient woodland of Poland, a symbol over the centuries of national endurance, through the forest birthplace of the German psyche, to the Big Trees of Yosemite that gave a new nation its holy past. Through all of history, from pre-classical antiquity to the Third Reich and beyond, Schama uncovers the myths and memories that have stamped themselves on our most basic social instincts and institutions: territorial identity, the wild and domestic, mortality and immortality. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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