Ecology And Modern Scottish Literature

Author : Louisa Gairn
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Philippe Laplace
Publisher : Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2848675306

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Environmental and Ecological Readings by Philippe Laplace Pdf

Author : Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : English literature
ISBN : OCLC:1368443886

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Environmental and Ecological Readings by Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen Pdf

The global risks posed by our industrial and post-industrial societies have brought environmental issues to the forefront of reflections and preoccupations in the postmodern world. One critical - and crucial - outcome of this state of affairs is the realization that artistic and literary representations of Nature and the environment need to be studied ever more closely if we are to adequately understand our relationship with our habitat and the impact we have had, and continue to have, on our planet. This volume features seventeen articles from French and international scholars covering a wide range of genres, from eighteenth-century travel writers to contemporary poets, playwrights and novelists. The essays consider Nature and the environment in their relationship to men and women and question how mankind is set to evolve in a contemporary world that is increasingly perceived as posthuman. They show how these concepts have affected Scottish authors and literature produced in Scotland. Presented chronologically, the essays highlight how each of the authors featured may have influenced the ensuing literary tradition. While the first section focuses on eighteenth and nineteenth century Scottish poets, novelists, artists or travel-writers, the second turns its attention to twentieth and twenty-first century authors, with an emphasis on modern and postmodern considerations, including the future of the human species from a posthuman perspective. The collection is particularly noteworthy for its showcasing of previously unpublished material and stands as a significant contribution to arts research in ecocriticism and in the Scottish artistic and literary fields.

Author : Berthold Schoene
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748630288

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Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature by Berthold Schoene Pdf

The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature examines the ways in which the cultural and political role of Scottish writing has changed since the country's successful referendum on national self-rule in 1997. In doing so, it makes a convincing case for a distinctive post-devolution Scottish criticism. Introducing over forty original essays under four main headings - 'Contexts', 'Genres', 'Authors' and 'Topics' - the volume covers the entire spectrum of current interests and topical concerns in the field of Scottish studies and heralds a new era in Scottish writing, literary criticism and cultural theory. It records and critically outlines prominent literary trends and developments, the specific political circumstances and aesthetic agendas that propel them, as well as literature's capacity for envisioning new and alternative futures. Issues under discussion include class, sexuality and gender, nationhood and globalisation, the New Europe and cosmopolitan citizenship, postcoloniality,

Author : Monika Szuba
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Dr John Rignall,Professor H Gustav Klaus,Professor Valentine Cunningham
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409483601

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Ecology and the Literature of the British Left by Dr John Rignall,Professor H Gustav Klaus,Professor Valentine Cunningham Pdf

Premised on the belief that a social and an ecological agenda are compatible, this collection offers readings in the ecology of left and radical writing from the Romantic period to the present. While early ecocriticism tended to elide the bitter divisions within and between societies, recent practitioners of ecofeminism, environmental justice, and social ecology have argued that the social, the economic and the environmental have to be seen as part of the same process. Taking up this challenge, the contributors trace the origins of an environmental sensibility and of the modern left to their roots in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, charting the ways in which the literary imagination responds to the political, industrial and agrarian revolutions. Topics include Samuel Taylor Coleridge's credentials as a green writer, the interaction between John Ruskin's religious and political ideas and his changing view of nature, William Morris and the Garden City movement, H. G. Wells and the Fabians, the devastated landscapes in the poetry and fiction of the First World War, and the leftist pastoral poetry of the 1930s. In historicizing and connecting environmentally sensitive literature with socialist thought, these essays explore the interactive vision of nature and society in the work of writers ranging from William Wordsworth and John Clare to John Berger and John Burnside.

Author : Camille Manfredi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : H. Gustav Klaus,Valentine Cunningham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317146322

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Ecology and the Literature of the British Left by H. Gustav Klaus,Valentine Cunningham Pdf

Premised on the belief that a social and an ecological agenda are compatible, this collection offers readings in the ecology of left and radical writing from the Romantic period to the present. While early ecocriticism tended to elide the bitter divisions within and between societies, recent practitioners of ecofeminism, environmental justice, and social ecology have argued that the social, the economic and the environmental have to be seen as part of the same process. Taking up this challenge, the contributors trace the origins of an environmental sensibility and of the modern left to their roots in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, charting the ways in which the literary imagination responds to the political, industrial and agrarian revolutions. Topics include Samuel Taylor Coleridge's credentials as a green writer, the interaction between John Ruskin's religious and political ideas and his changing view of nature, William Morris and the Garden City movement, H. G. Wells and the Fabians, the devastated landscapes in the poetry and fiction of the First World War, and the leftist pastoral poetry of the 1930s. In historicizing and connecting environmentally sensitive literature with socialist thought, these essays explore the interactive vision of nature and society in the work of writers ranging from William Wordsworth and John Clare to John Berger and John Burnside.

Author : Gerard Carruthers,Liam McIlvanney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521189361

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The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature by Gerard Carruthers,Liam McIlvanney Pdf

A unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period.

Author : Samantha Walton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350153387

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The Living World by Samantha Walton Pdf

Harnessing new enthusiasm for Nan Shepherd's writing, The Living World asks how literature might help us reimagine humanity's place on earth in the midst of our ecological crisis. The first book to examine Shepherd's writing through an ecocritical lens, it reveals forgotten details about the scientific, political and philosophical climate of early twentieth century Scotland, and offers new insights into Shepherd's distinctive environmental thought. More than this, this book reveals how Shepherd's ways of relating to complex, interconnected ecologies predate many of the core themes and concerns of the multi-disciplinary environmental humanities, and may inform their future development. Broken down into chapters focusing on themes of place, ecology, environmentalism, Deep Time, vital matter and selfhood, The Living World offers the first integrated study of Shepherd's writing and legacy, making the work of this philosopher, feminist, amateur ecologist, geologist, and innovative modernist, accessible and relevant to a new community of readers.

Author : Philippe Laplace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 284867749X

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Environmental and ecological readings by Philippe Laplace Pdf

The global risks posed by our industrial and post-industrial societies have brought environmental issues to the forefront of reflections and preoccupations in the postmodern world. One critical - and crucial - outcome of this state of affairs is the realization that artistic and literary representations of Nature and the environment need to be studied ever more closely if we are to adequately understand our relationship with our habitat and the impact we have had, and continue to have, on our planet. This volume features seventeen articles from French and international scholars covering a wide range of genres, from eighteenth-century travel writers to contemporary poets, playwrights and novelists. The essays consider Nature and the environment in their relationship to men and women and question how mankind is set to evolve in a contemporary world that is increasingly perceived as posthuman. They show how these concepts have affected Scottish authors and literature produced in Scotland. Presented chronologically, the essays highlight how each of the authors featured may have influenced the ensuing literary tradition. While the first section focuses on eighteenth and nineteenth century Scottish poets, novelists, artists or travel-writers, the second turns its attention to twentieth and twenty-first century authors, with an emphasis on modern and postmodern considerations, including the future of the human species from a posthuman perspective. The collection is particularly noteworthy for its showcasing of previously unpublished material and stands as a significant contribution to arts research in ecocriticism and in the Scottish artistic and literary fields.

Author : Monika Szuba,Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030126452

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The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature by Monika Szuba,Julian Wolfreys Pdf

This book addresses the poetics of space and place in Scottish literature. Focusing chiefly on twentieth- and twenty-first century texts, with acknowledgement of historical and philosophical contexts, the essays address representation, narrative form, the work of the poetic, perception and experience. Major genres and forms are discussed, and authors as diverse as George Mackay Brown, Kathleen Jamie, Ken McLeod and Kei Miller are presented through theoretically informed, historically contextualized close readings. Additionally considering the role of dialect and region in the poetry and fiction of modern Scotland, the volume argues for an appreciation of the cultural diversity of Scottish writers while highlighting the overarching presence of a connection between self and world, subject and place within Scottish literature.

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199596805

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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry by Peter Robinson Pdf

This Handbook offers an authoritative and up-to-date collection of original essays bringing together ground breaking research into the development of contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland.

Author : Dennis Denisoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108845977

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Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910 by Dennis Denisoff Pdf

Decadent Ecology illuminates the networks of nature, paganism, and desire in 19th- and early 20th-century decadent literature and art. Combining the environmental humanities with aesthetic, queer and literary theory, this study reveals the interplay of art, eco-paganism and science during the formation of modern ecological and evolutionary thought.

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317002024

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Victorian Writers and the Environment by Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison Pdf

Applying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this collection explores what a diversity of ecocritical approaches can offer students and scholars of Victorian literature, at the same time that it critiques the general effectiveness of ecocritical theory. Interdisciplinary in their approach, the essays take up questions related to the nonhuman, botany, landscape, evolutionary science, and religion. The contributors cast a wide net in terms of genre, analyzing novels, poetry, periodical works, botanical literature, life-writing, and essays. Focusing on a wide range of canonical and noncanonical writers, including Charles Dickens, the Brontes, John Ruskin, Christina Rossetti, Jane Webb Loudon, Anna Sewell, and Richard Jefferies, Victorian Writers and the Environment demonstrates the ways in which nineteenth-century authors engaged not only with humans’ interaction with the environment during the Victorian period, but also how some authors anticipated more recent attitudes toward the environment.