| 释义 |
inscape, n.|ˈɪnskeɪp|
[Origin unknown; perh. f. in adv. 12 + scape n.3, or ad. inshape.]
Hopkins's word for the individual or essential quality of a thing; the uniqueness of an observed object, scene, event, etc. (see quots.). Hence ˈinscape v. trans.; ˈinscaped ppl. a.
1868G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 127 His [sc. Parmenides'] feeling for instress, for the flush and fore⁓drawn, and for inscape is most striking. Ibid. 129 The way men judge in particular is determined for each by his own inscape. Ibid. 174 Two plants especially with strongly inscaped leaves cover the mountain pastures. Ibid. 177 The whole cascade is inscaped in fretted falling vandykes. 1879― Lett. to R. Bridges (1955) 66 Design, pattern, or what I am in the habit of calling ‘inscape’ is what I above all aim at in poetry. Now it is the virtue of design, pattern, or inscape to be distinctive and it is the vice of distinctiveness to become queer. 1886― Let. 7 Nov. (1956) 373 The essential and only lasting thing left out—what I call inscape, that is species or individually-distinctive beauty of style. 1919R. Fry Let. 29 Apr. (1972) II. 450 His [sc. G. M. Hopkins's] aesthetic—his ‘inscape’; that's what we are after, however much we miss it. 1938D. Gascoyne Hölderlin's Madness 35 All is an inscape And yet separates Thus shelters the Poet. 1944Downside Rev. LXII. 185 The prefix ‘in-’ of ‘inscape’ is the operative part. ‘Inscape’ is the perception that comes only with contraction to a point. The inscape of a scene is not its correspondence with an externally conceived pattern; it is that scene experienced as absolutely unique, knit together in that oneness which is nameable only by relation. 1944[see instress n.]. 1945C. Williams All Hallows' Eve vii. 113 He forgot Simon..he forgot Lester...The inscape of the painting became central. 1948W. A. M. Peters G. M. Hopkins i. 1 ‘Inscape’ is the unified complex of those sensible qualities of the object of perception that strikes us as inseparably belonging to and most typical of it, so that through the knowledge of this unified complex of sense-data we may gain an insight into the individual essence of the object. 1953W. H. Gardner in G. M. Hopkins Poems & Prose 229 Twindles..a portmanteau word inscaping ‘twists’ and ‘dwindles’. 1970Country Life 26 Feb. 484/2 In Manchester there is the fabric of buildings and structures which contribute by their reality to the inscape of the place. |