Contemporary Scottish Poetry And The Natural World

Author : Monika Szuba
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474450621

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Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World by Monika Szuba Pdf

Examines the representation of landscape in the poetry of John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, Robin Robertson and Kenneth White Provides an interdisciplinary approach to the representation of landscape in contemporary poetryOpens up the dialogue between ecocriticism and phenomenologyProvides significant original discussion of major Scottish poetsReassesses the work and place of Kenneth White's poetry and thoughtWith an exciting and provocative approach to the reading of landscape and the non-human world in the work of four major Scottish poets, this groundbreaking book merges phenomenology and ecocritical literary criticism. It explores these poets' organic, intimate interrelation between the self and the world, their relationship to the landscape and connection with nature.

Author : Matt McGuire
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748636273

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Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry by Matt McGuire Pdf

The last three decades have seen unprecedented flourishing of creativity across the Scottish literary landscape, so that contemporary Scottish poetry constitutes an internationally renowned, award-winning body of work. At the heart of this has been the work of poets. As this poetry makes space for its own innovative concerns, it renegotiates the poetic inheritance of preceding generations. At the same time, Scottish poetry continues to be animated by writing from other places. The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry is the definitive guide to this flourishing poetic scene. Its chapters examine Scottish poetry in all three of the nation's languages. It analyses many thematic preoccupations: tradition and innovation; revolutions in gender; the importance of place; the aesthetic politics of devolution. These chapters are complemented by extended close readings of the work of key poets that have defined this era, including Edwin Morgan, Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, Aonghas MacNeacail and John Burnside.

Author : Kathleen Jamie
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781786899804

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Antlers of Water by Kathleen Jamie Pdf

'Luminous' The Times 'Beautiful’ Caught by the River Bringing together contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, this inspiring collection takes us from walking to wild swimming, from red deer to pigeons and wasps, from remote islands to back gardens, through prose, poetry and photography. Edited and introduced by Kathleen Jamie, and with contributions from Amy Liptrot, Jim Crumley, Chitra Ramaswamy, Malachy Tallack, Amanda Thomson and many more, Antlers of Water urges us to renegotiate our relationship with the more-than-human world, in writing which is by turns celebratory, radical and political.

Author : Matt McGuire,Colin Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748636269

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The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry by Matt McGuire,Colin Nicholson Pdf

The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry Edited by Matt McGuire and Colin Nicholson This is the first book to take political devolution as an organising context for the presentation and discussion of main currents in contemporary Scottish poetry. The book combines thematic chapters with in-depth analysis of key poets writing in English, in Gaelic and in Scots, to address the central issues raised in work that is responding to changes in the socio-economic and political environment over recent decades: the influence of tradition (both national and international); the question of language; the rise of women's writing; the relationship between poetry and politics; and the importance of place to the Scottish imagination. The chapters demonstrate a broad range of interests, while also offering detailed analysis of the many ways writers broach their subject matter; including close readings of poetry by Edwin Morgan, Kenneth White, Aonghas MacNeacail, Kathleen Jamie, John Burnside, Robin Robertson, Mick Imlah and Don Paterson, among others. Chapters by practicing poets and by academics deliver senses of the current range and quality of poetry in Scotland. Key Features *A thorough guide to contemporary Scottish poetry and poets, making the book an ideal course text *Reflects the ways in which the work of Scottish poets reflects a radical cultural independence following Devolution *Provides authoritative essays by the leading experts in the field *Includes a valuable synoptic bibliography Matt McGuire is a lecturer at the University of Glasgow. Colin Nicholson is Professor of Eighteenth-Century and Modern Literature at Edinburgh University.

Author : Wolfgang Gortschacher,David Malcolm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118843253

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A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015 by Wolfgang Gortschacher,David Malcolm Pdf

A comprehensive and scholarly review of contemporary British and Irish Poetry With contributions from noted scholars in the field, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a collection of writings from a diverse group of experts. They explore the richness of individual poets, genres, forms, techniques, traditions, concerns, and institutions that comprise these two distinct but interrelated national poetries. Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture series, this book contains a comprehensive survey of the most important contemporary Irish and British poetry. The contributors provide new perspectives and positions on the topic. This important book: Explores the institutions, histories, and receptions of contemporary Irish and British poetry Contains contributions from leading scholars of British and Irish poetry Includes an analysis of the most prominent Irish and British poets Puts contemporary Irish and British poetry in context Written for students and academics of contemporary poetry, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a comprehensive review of contemporary poetry from a wide range of diverse contributors.

Author : Stefanie John
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000397758

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Post-Romantic Aesthetics in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry by Stefanie John Pdf

This book demonstrates the legacies of Romanticism which animate the poetry and poetics of Eavan Boland, Gillian Clarke, John Burnside, and Kathleen Jamie. It argues that the English Romantic tradition serves as a source of inspiration and critical contention for these Irish, Welsh, and Scottish poets, and it relates this engagement to wider concerns with gender, nation, and nature which have shaped contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. Covering a substantial number of works from the 1980s to the 2010s, the book discusses how Boland and Clarke, as women poets from the Republic of Ireland and Wales, react to a male-dominated and Anglocentric lyric tradition and thus rework notions of the Romantic. It examines how Burnside and Jamie challenge, adopt, and revise Romantic aesthetics of nature and environment. The book is the first in-depth study to read Boland, Clarke, Burnside, and Jamie as post-Romantics. By disentangling the aesthetic and critical conceptions of Romanticism which inform their inheritance, it develops an innovative approach to the understanding of contemporary poetry and literary influence.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004520288

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Literary Invention and the Cartographic Imagination by Anonim Pdf

A wide-ranging, inter- and transdisciplinary approach grounded in the twin rigors of theory and history, which, through close readings assesses and analyses the significance of maps to literary texts, and which examines the ways in which the literary maps imaginary and real worlds.

Author : Peter Mackay,Edna Longley,Fran Brearton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139499941

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Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry by Peter Mackay,Edna Longley,Fran Brearton Pdf

The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of modern Irish and Scottish poetry, featuring close readings of texts within broad historical and political contextualisation. Playing on influences, crossovers, connections, disconnections and differences, the 'affinities' and 'opposites' traced in this book cross both Irish and Scottish poetry in many directions. Contributors include major scholars of the new 'archipelagic' approach, as well as leading Irish and Scottish poets providing important insights into current creative practice. Poets discussed include W. B. Yeats, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Louis MacNeice, Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn, Seamus Heaney, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala ni Dhomhnaill, Don Paterson and Kathleen Jamie. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of poetry from these islands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Author : Monika Szuba
Publisher : EUP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474484204

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Landscape Poetics by Monika Szuba Pdf

[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 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).

Author : Camille Manfredi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030187606

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Nature and Space in Contemporary Scottish Writing and Art by Camille Manfredi Pdf

This book examines how contemporary Scottish writers and artists revisit and reclaim nature in the political and aesthetic context of devolved Scotland. Camille Manfredi investigates the interaction of landscape aesthetics and strategies of spatial representation in Scotland’s twenty-first-century literature and arts, focusing on the apparatuses designed by nature writers, poets, performers, walking artists and visual artists to physically and intellectually engage with the land and re-present it to themselves and to the world. Through a comprehensive analysis of a variety of site-specific artistic practices, artworks and publications, this book investigates the works of Scotland-based artists including Linda Cracknell, Kathleen Jamie, Thomas A. Clark, Gerry Loose, John Burnside, Alec Finlay, Hamish Fulton, Hanna Tuulikki and Roseanne Watt, with a view to exploring the ongoing re-invention of a territory-bound identity that dwells on an inclusive sense of place, as well as on a complex renegotiation with the time and space of Scotland.

Author : Louisa Gairn
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748631988

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Ecology and Modern Scottish Literature by Louisa Gairn Pdf

This book presents a provocative and timely reconsideration of modern Scottish literature in the light of ecological thought. Louisa Gairn demonstrates how successive generations of Scottish writers have both reflected on and contributed to the development of international ecological theory and philosophy. Provocative re-readings of works by authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, John Muir, Nan Shepherd, John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie and George Mackay Brown demonstrate the significance of ecological thought across the spectrum of Scottish literary culture. This book traces the influence of ecology as a scientific, philosophical and political concept in the work of these and other writers and in doing so presents an original outlook on Scottish literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

Author : MacCaig Morgan Lochhead
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781847675842

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Three Scottish Poets by MacCaig Morgan Lochhead Pdf

MACCAIG * MORGAN * LOCHHEAD Introduced by Roderick Watson This book contains a selection of the finest work from three of Scotland’s best-known and best-loved poets: Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead. They have fascinated and charmed thousands of readers and listeners across Europe and America with the energy, humour and compassion of their vision. MacCaig’s memorable celebrations of the physical world and the tragic-comic note of many of his short lyrics contrast strikingly with Morgan’s poems on the modern world and city life. Liz Lochhead writes with an alert and sensitive eye on personal relationships and women’s experience of them. The book provides an invaluable introduction to modern Scottish poetry and to the poets who are arguably its greatest practitioners. ‘A really pleasing short anthology of poetry by three exceptional contemporary Scottish Poets.’ The Scotsman

Author : John Veitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : English poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086678927

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The Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry by John Veitch Pdf

Author : Amatoritsero Ede,Sandra Lee Kleppe,Angela Sorby
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000998474

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Poetry and the Global Climate Crisis by Amatoritsero Ede,Sandra Lee Kleppe,Angela Sorby Pdf

This book demonstrates how humans can become sensitized to, and intervene in, environmental degradation by writing, reading, analyzing, and teaching poetry. It offers both theoretical and practice-based essays, providing a diversity of approaches and voices that will be useful in the classroom and beyond. The chapters in this edited collection explore how poetry can make readers climate-ready and climate-responsive through creativity, empathy, and empowerment. The book encompasses work from or about Oceania, Africa, Europe, North America, Asia, and Antarctica, integrating poetry into discussions of specific local and global issues, including the value of Indigenous responses to climate change; the dynamics of climate migration; the shifting boundaries between the human and more-than-human world; the ecopoetics of the prison-industrial complex; and the ongoing environmental effects of colonialism, racism, and sexism. With numerous examples of how poetry reading, teaching, and learning can enhance or modify mindsets, the book focuses on offering creative, practical approaches and tools that educators can implement into their teaching and equipping them with the theoretical knowledge to support these. This volume will appeal to educational professionals engaged in teaching environmental, sustainability, and development topics, particularly from a humanities-led perspective.

Author : John Veitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Nature in literature
ISBN : NLI:3227000-20

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“The” Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry by John Veitch Pdf