W. H. Auden’s Paysages Etymologisés
Adapting contemporary psychological, sociological, and religious theories of human consciousness, Auden repeatedly tells the story of how the invention of language radically altered our relationships with the natural world. These contexts are used to examine the role of etymology—and specifically the concrete etymologies of abstract words—in Auden’s moralised landscapes, which are the settings for his stories about the origin of language. Etymological analyses identify dialogues between past and present meanings—for example, of the words ‘rival’ and ‘savage’—that illuminate Auden’s concern with ‘the relation of man as a history-making person to nature’.
2017 ◽
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2021 ◽
Vol 30
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pp. 529-542
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1994 ◽
Vol 36
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pp. 45-57
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2017 ◽
Vol 122
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pp. 1079-1104
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2014 ◽
Vol 45
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pp. 402-405
1970 ◽
Vol 5
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pp. 75-81
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