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Book Chapter
Aesthetics of the Environment
2009
Overview
Near the end ofCombray(Remembrance of Things Past), we wonder how it is possible to speak of or describe the beauty of the world. The answer is that we must overcome the disparity between our impressions and their expression (“le désaccord entre nos impressions et leur expression”). As Starobinski (1999, 157) points out, Marcel Proust introduces the theme of emotion, which needs to acquire the verbal and visual means appropriate to the interpretation of that beauty through the application of a rhetoric of the ineffable. It is an experience of limit that presents a vast array of motifs, correspondences,
