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- Title: Nature's Farthest Verge Or Landscapes Beyond Allegory and Rhetorical Convention? the Case of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Petrarch's Ascent of Mount Ventoux (Literature) (Critical Essay)
- Author : Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 264 KB
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ABSTRACT Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Petrarch's Ascent of Mount Ventoux have both been held up as marking pivotal stages in the development of naturalism in landscape descriptions. This article attempts to gauge to what extent non-referentiality (both in figurative and formalistic terms) is sustainable in representations of landscapes in these two late-medieval texts. On close inspection, the portrayal of landscape in these two works suggests that proto-modernity has little purchase on their topographic verisimilitude, which functions not so much as a harbinger of proto-modernity but as a naturalistic signifier operative in conventional figural situations.