The Emotional Truth of Mountains: Ruskin and J.M.W. Turner
Let me begin by explaining my title: "The emotional truth of mountains." The phrase has a number of internal contradictions or complexities produced by abruptly compressing psychological, philosophical and geological components into close relationship. Can mountains have a "truth&quo...
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| 格式: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 語言: | Anglais |
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Anglophonia Caliban/Sigma
2024
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| 在線閱讀: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 總結: | Let me begin by explaining my title: "The emotional truth of mountains." The phrase has a number of internal contradictions or complexities produced by abruptly compressing psychological, philosophical and geological components into close relationship. Can mountains have a "truth", let alone an "emotional truth"? In what sense can any emotion be said to be "true"? The phrase is one I want to apply to an exploration of some attempts to represent mountains in English prose and painting, where ... |
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