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February 26, 2001 Issue 9 - Vol 2

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This issue, the Galloping Geezer urges us to take on The Ghoul Tax, that last grab for our hard-earned dollars as we leave this Earth.

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Where is our Just Society

I'll get back to you when our politicians,our judiciary and police all are on the same page when it comes to protecting the lawful rights of our citizens and dealing unmercifully with those that commit any acts against our society and environment for their own financial or personal gain. Criminal or lawbreaking acts seem to be commited without impunity and money is behind most acts.Where is our "Just Society?"

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The Picturesque and the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape
by Author Susan Glickman

The Picturesque and the Sublime is a cultural history of two hundred years of nature writing in Canada, from eighteenth-century prospect poems to contemporary encounters with landscape. Arguing against the received wisdom (made popular by Northrop Frye and Margaret Atwood) that Canadian writers view nature as hostile, Susan Glickman places Canadian literature in the English and European traditions of the sublime and the picturesque.

Glickman argues that early immigrants to Canada brought with them the expectation that nature would be grand, mysterious, awesome - even terrifying - and welcomed scenes that conformed to these notions of sublimity. She contends that to interpret their descriptions of nature as "negative," as so many critics have done, is a significant misunderstanding. Glickman provides close readings of several important works, including Susanna Moodie's "Enthusiasm," Charles G.D. Roberts's Ave, and Paulette Jiles's "Song to the Rising Sun," and explores the poems in the context of theories of nature and art.

Instead of projecting backward from a modernist perspective, Glickman reads forward from the discovery of landscape as a legitimate artistic subject in seventeenth-century England and argues that picturesque modes of description, and a sublime aesthetic, have governed much of the representation of nature in this country.
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