inscape
/ˈɪnskeɪp
/noun literary
The unique inner nature of a person or object as shown in a work of art, especially a poem.She was clearly one of those solitary temperaments whose earliest companions were things, whose inscapes spoke to her soul....
- Hopkins, committed essentialist, sees repetition as a way of fixing or catching an inscape, the ‘thisness’ of a thing or situation.
- If Billie Holiday tends to root us to one spot, (the place from which her painful joy issues forth into the world), Yannatou carries us on a voyage into different musical dialects with varied textures and inscapes.
Origin
Mid 19th century (originally in the poetic theory of Gerard Manley Hopkins): perhaps from in-2 'within' + -scape.