The Emotional Truth of Mountains: Ruskin and J.M.W. Turner

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30 janvier 2024

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Malcolm Andrews, « The Emotional Truth of Mountains: Ruskin and J.M.W. Turner », Anglophonia Caliban/Sigma, ID : 10.4000/caliban.1088


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Let me begin by explaining my title: "The emotional truth of mountains." The phrase has a number of internal contradictions or complexities produced by abruptly compressing psychological, philosophical and geological components into close relationship. Can mountains have a "truth", let alone an "emotional truth"? In what sense can any emotion be said to be "true"? The phrase is one I want to apply to an exploration of some attempts to represent mountains in English prose and painting, where ...

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