Publication

2006-06-01 - State University of New York Press

Language

English

Word Count

25,500 words, Guess

Page Count

102 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100791464903
  • ISBN-139780791464908
  • OCLC Control Number150362793
  • Better World Books9780791464908
  • Open LibraryOL7803463M

Classifications

  • DDC809/.93324492
  • LCCPN56.3.V46 W45 2005

Description

"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: of 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 metaphysical quest."--Jacket.

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  • The Wind And the SourcePaperbackState University of New York Press2006-06-01

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