| Description |
Before the naked city and joyless streets was the garden. This is its plot. Originally it was a "pleasant place," beyond which, in space and time, sprouted thorn and thistle. Later, much later, perhaps when it was already too late, came landscape (is it a noun or a verb, or both?). This course traces a serpentine path through the history of landscape, with occasional and revealing vistas to and from literature, the arts, and the sciences. "Down the Garden Path" suggests being taken in, willingly falling prey to the ruses that await us in the garden, and which are masked by its pleasures. |