Landscape Poetics: Scottish Textual Practice 1928 Present

Author:   Monika Szuba
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
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9781474484206


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   30 November 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Reassesses Scottish textual practice in the context of the natural and post-natural landscapes Covers a range of the relationships between landscape, literature, and culture Explores the lived relationship between form, content, and consciousness Provides a phenomenological study of the intertwining of self and world, subject and landscape Landscape 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.

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Author:   Monika Szuba
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781474484206


ISBN 10:   1474484204
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   30 November 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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A 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!--Camille Manfredi, University of Brest 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.--Louisa Gairn, author of Ecology and Modern Scottish Literature


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Monika Szuba, Professor in Literature at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Gda?sk.

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