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Landscape Poetics : Scottish Textual Practice 1928-Present by Monika Szuba (2023, Hardcover)

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Landscape Poetics: Scottish Textual Practice 1928–Present by Szuba, Monika [Hardcover]

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PublisherEdinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press

ISBN-101474484204

ISBN-139781474484206

eBay Product ID (ePID)2331939009

Product Key Features

Number of Pages248 Pages

Publication NameLandscape Poetics : Scottish Textual Practice 1928-Present

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

SubjectModern / 21st Century, Subjects & Themes / Nature, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorMonika Szuba

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsA compelling contribution to Scottish ecocriticism by the leading academic in the field, Monika Szuba's new monograph offers an insightful and inspiring reassessment of the idea of landscape in the works of some of Scotland's most celebrated modern writers. A must-read for anyone interested in Scottish nature writing!, Monika Szuba's perceptive close readings of five key Scottish writers mark an important contribution to the study of Scottish literature and landscape. Informed by phenomenology, this lucid and engaging work opens new paths in understanding modern Scottish writing on landscape, with dynamic embodied experience at the core of our relationship with the more-than-human world.

Dewey Decimal820.936

Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Introduction: Towards a Phenomenological Reading of the Scottish Landscape 1.'This intricate interplay': The Interconnectedness of Place, Atmosphere and Living Matter in Nan Shepherd 2. 'Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses?': Logos of the Landscape in Norman MacCaig's Poetry 3. 'A wing's beat and it's gone': Between Transience and Permanence in Kathleen Jamie's Writing 4. 'A patch pegged out for closer examination': Thomas A Clark Poetic Practice 5. 'Acts of communal memory': Landscape, Memory and Place-names in Alec Finlay's Work ReferencesIndex

SynopsisLandscape Poetics is an interdisciplinary study that seeks to place Scottish writers in relation to their landscape, by investigating how the self is entwined in place. By examinining the writing and practice of particular modern and contemporary authors in the light of environmental thought, the study explores their lived, organic connection to the landscape. Landscape Poetics presents an argument that the relationship between author and world is expressed through the language of vibrant and engaged experience. Shepherd, MacCaig, Jamie, Clark and Finlay are seen as reinventing the perception of the landscape by proposing that the subject is no longer involved in the act of objectification, but is instead an embodied self that enters place, perceiving it more fully.

LC Classification NumberPR149.L35