Unfolding Irish landscapes

Tim Robinson, culture and environment
Herausgeber: Cusick, Christine; Gladwin, Derek

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Produktbeschreibung

Unfolding Irish landscapes offers a comprehensive and sustained cross-disciplinary study of the work of cartographer, landscape writer and visual artist Tim Robinson. Robinson's work continues to garner significant attention not only in Ireland, but also in the United Kingdom, Europe and North America, particularly with the recent celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his monumental Stones of Aran: pilgrimage. In The Guardian, Robert Macfarlane has described Robinson's work in Ireland as 'one of the most sustained, intensive and imaginative studies of a landscape that has ever been carried out'. It is difficult to separate Robinson the figure from his work and the places he surveys in Ireland - they are intertextual and interconnected. This volume explores some of these characteristics for both general and expert readers alike. The multi-genre essays and visual texts of this collection explore Robinson's writing, map-making and art. The individual studies demonstrate disciplinary expertise; as parts of a cohesive project they form a collective overview of the imaginative sensibility and artistic dexterity of Robinson's cultural and geographical achievements in Ireland. By navigating Robinson's method of ambulation through his prose and visual creations this book examines topics ranging from the politics of cartography and map-making as visual art forms to the cultural and environmental dimensions of writing about landscapes. The collection draws from the expertise of international scholars in fields of Irish studies, geography, environmental studies, literature and visual culture, with contributors including Patrick Duffy, John Elder, Moya Cannon, Gerry Smyth and Moynagh Sullivan. Unfolding Irish landscapes will be an essential companion not only for students and lecturers in Irish studies and environmental humanities but also for the general reader seeking a deeper understanding of Ireland's geography and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781784992781
• ISBN-10: 178499278X
• Artikelnr.: 42798701

Autorenporträt

Derek Gladwin is SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia Christine Cusick is an Associate Professor of English at Seton Hill University

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Robert Macfarlane Introduction: Ireland's 'ABC of earth wonders'
Christine Cusick and Derek Gladwin Part 1: Explorations in cartography and geography 1. Genius loci: the geographical imagination of Tim Robinson
Patrick Duffy 2. Catchments
John Elder 3. 'The fineness of things': the deep mapping projects of Tim Robinson's art and writings, 1969
1972
Nessa Cronin 4. Documentary map
making and film
making in Pat Collins' Tim Robinson: Connemara
Derek Gladwin Part 2: Topographic writing and narrative 5. 'And now intellect, discovering its own effects': Tim Robinson as narrative scholar
Christine Cusick 6. Not
knowing as aesthetic imperative in Tim Robinson's Stones of Aran
Kelly Sullivan 7. Thirteen ways of looking at a landscape: the poetic in the work of Tim Robinson
Moya Cannon 8. Tim Robinson and Chris Arthur: in defence of the Irish essay
Karen Babine Part 3: Place and the Irish cultural imagination 9. 'But his study is out of doors': Tim Robinson's place in Irish studies
Eamonn Wall 10. Maps, movements, and migrants: reading Tim Robinson though Gluaiseacht Chearta Sibhialta na Gaeltachta
Jerry White 11. 'About nothing, about everything': listening in / to Tim Robinson
Gerry Smyth 12. 'another half
humanized boulder lying on unprofitable ground': the visual art of Tim Robinson/Timothy Drever
Catherine Marshall 13. 'An ear to the earth': matrixial gazing in Tim Robinson's walk
art
text practice
Moynagh Sullivan 14. Essayist of place: postcolonialism and ecology in the work of Tim Robinson
Eóin Flannery Epilogue: On the rocks road
Andrew McNeillie Bibliography Index