Landscape and National Identities
Location
Massey Board Room
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
15-9-2009 11:00 AM
Description
This illustrated talk will trace the use of particular landscapes as metonyms for national identity: Blake's "green and pleasant land" of England, the "forty shades of green" of Ireland, the "amber waves of grain" of the provocatively-named American "heartland." We will examine patriotic songs, landscape poetry, landscape painting and the iconographic meanings of Monument Valley, used in Westerns to symbolize the heroic American character.
Recommended Citation
Murray, Douglas, "Landscape and National Identities" (2009). Humanities Symposium. 6.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2009/2009/6
Landscape and National Identities
Massey Board Room
This illustrated talk will trace the use of particular landscapes as metonyms for national identity: Blake's "green and pleasant land" of England, the "forty shades of green" of Ireland, the "amber waves of grain" of the provocatively-named American "heartland." We will examine patriotic songs, landscape poetry, landscape painting and the iconographic meanings of Monument Valley, used in Westerns to symbolize the heroic American character.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Academic Lecture