Author: Finley, C. Stephen
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Nature's Covenant: Figures of Landscape in Ruskin
Price: $9.98
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press : November 1992
Seller ID: 460680
ISBN-13: 9780271007885
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very Good
Nature's Covenant, a reading of John Ruskin, including his neglected poems and early prose writings, brings forth a fresh awareness of his career as an interpreter of landscape, where landscape is conceived as a filter of human meaning, of aesthetic and theological significance. The book shows the correlation in Ruskin's work between the Reformed theology of his religious tradition and the Romantic poetics of literature that he sought to practice. It reconstructs the particular hermeneutic of landscape that Ruskin developed, a vision of the natural world that depended equally upon the Romantic...
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