| The Wind and the Source: In the Shadow of Mont Ventoux Contributor(s): Weiss, Allen S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791464903 ISBN-13: 9780791464908 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $30.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2006 Annotation: Explores the role of a significant yet elusive feature of the French landscape in literature, philosophy, and art. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | European - Literary Criticism | European - French - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.84" W x 8.28" (0.36 lbs) 118 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What does it mean to love a landscape? Why do certain authors have a predilection for specific landscapes? Why might one be fascinated by a landscape in which one would never wish to live? How does the lay of the land fashion the form of the poem? How does the wind infuse the breath? In The Wind and the Source, Allen S. Weiss explores the role of a significant yet elusive feature of the French landscape in literature, philosophy, and art: the legendary, mysterious, monolithic Mont Ventoux. This is not a book about picturesque, touristic Provence, but about the manifestation of an extreme limit of the imagination that happens to have Provence as its site, as its fantasyland. Weiss is concerned with the vicissitudes of the desire to write about a landscape, the desire to write in a landscape, and perhaps most curiously, the desire to write against a landscape. This is a book about love of the landscape, and abstraction from it; it is an account of how a mountain became a myth, and how an aesthetic and literary study became a metaphysical quest. |