Landscape Poetics: Scottish Textual Practice 1928 Present - Hardcover

Szuba, Monika

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474484204 ISBN 13: 9781474484206

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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

From the Back Cover

[headline]Reassesses Scottish textual practice in the context of the natural and post-natural landscapes Landscape Poetics provides an interdisciplinary study that seeks to place Scottish writers in relation to their landscape, by investigating how the self is entwined in place. By examining the writing and practice of particular modern and contemporary authors in the light of environmental thought, Monika Szuba 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. [bio]Monika Szuba is Associate Professor in Literature at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Gdańsk. Her research is concerned with modern and contemporary literature informed by Environmental Humanities, with particular interest in phenomenology. She is the author of Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World: Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White (2019), co-editor of Literary Invention and the Cartographic Imagination: Early Modern to Late Modern (2022), The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature (2019) and Reading Victorian Literature: Essays in Honour of J. Hillis Miller (2019), and editor of Boundless Scotland: Space in Scottish Fiction (2015).

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• ISBN 10: 1474484204
• ISBN 13: 9781474484206
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240