Over 10 mio. titler Fri fragt ved køb over 499,- Hurtig levering Forlænget returret til 31/01/25

The American Mind

Bog
  • Format
  • Bog, hæftet
  • Engelsk
  • 186 sider

Beskrivelse

Many years ago, as a student in a foreign university, I remember attacking, with the complacency of youth, a German history of the English drama, in six volumes. I lost courage long before the author reached the age of Elizabeth, but I still recall the subject of the opening chapter: it was devoted to the physical geography of Great Britain. Writing, as the good German professor did, in the triumphant hour of Taine's theory as to the significance of place, period, and environment in determining the character of any literary production, what could be more logical than to begin at the beginning? Have not the chalk cliffs guarding the southern coast of England, have not the fatness of the midland counties and the soft rainy climate of a North Atlantic island, and the proud, tenacious, self-assertive folk that are bred there, all left their trace upon A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Every Man in his Humour and She Stoops to Conquer? Undoubtedly. Latitude and longitude, soil and rainfall and food-supply, racial origins and crossings, political and social and economic conditions, must assuredly leave their marks upon the mental and artistic productiveness of a people and upon the personality of individual writers.

Læs hele beskrivelsen
Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal186
  • Udgivelsesdato05-01-2022
  • ISBN139789392554308
  • Forlag Namaskar Books
  • FormatHæftet
Størrelse og vægt
  • Vægt245 g
  • Dybde1,1 cm
  • coffee cup img
    10 cm
    book img
    14 cm
    21,6 cm

    Findes i disse kategorier...

    Machine Name: SAXO084