The Entangled Eye: Visual Perception and the Representation of Nature in Post-Darwinian Narrative

by James Krasner

James Krasner demonstrates how Charles Darwin's representational techniques transformed his opulently "entangled" nature into a formless, psychologically interior landscape. The abundance and variety of evolutionary nature required Darwin and the nature writers who followed him to portray nature as though seen through a physical eye. Using the visual perception theories of Berkeley, Hamilton, Brewster, Koffka, and James, Krasner investigates the ways...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195073312
• ISBN13: 9780195073317
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"