Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity PDF
Edited by Dawn Hollis, Professor Jason Konig
Part of the Ancient Environments series
Description
Throughout the longue dure of Western culture, how have people represented mountains as landscapes of the imagination and as places of real experience? In what ways has human understanding of mountains changed or stayed the same?
Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity opens up a new conversation between ancient and modern engagements with mountains. It highlights the ongoing relevance of ancient understandings of mountain environments to the postclassical and present-day world, while also suggesting ways in which modern approaches to landscape can generate new questions about premodern responses. It brings together experts from across many different disciplines and periods, offering case studies on topics ranging from classical Greek drama to Renaissance art, and from early modern natural philosophy to nineteenth-century travel writing. Throughout, essays engage with key themes of temporality, knowledge, identity, and experience in the mountain landscape.
As a whole, the volume suggests that modern responses to mountains participate in rhetorical and experiential patterns that stretch right back to the ancient Mediterranean. It also makes the case for collaborative, cross-period research as a route both for understanding human relations with the natural world in the past, and informing them in the present.
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- Pages:272 pages, 8 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:06/05/2021
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- ISBN:9781350162839
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:272 pages, 8 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:06/05/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350162839
