Amy C. Mulligan

A landscape of words (eBook, ePUB)

Ireland, Britain and the poetics of space, 700-1250

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Living on an island at the edge of the known world, the medieval Irish were in a unique position to examine the spaces of the North Atlantic region and contemplate how geography can shape a people. This book is the first full-length study of medieval Irish topographical writing. It situates the theories and poetics of Irish place - developed over six centuries in response to a variety of political, cultural, religious and economic changes - in the bigger theoretical picture of studies of space, landscape, environmental writing and postcolonial identity construction. Presenting focused studies of important literary texts by authors from Ireland and Britain, it shows how these discourses influenced European conceptions of place and identity, as well as understandings of how to write the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526141125
• Artikelnr.: 57473523

Autorenporträt

Amy C. Mulligan is Assistant Professor of Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Holy islands: transformative landscapes and the origins of
an Irish spatial poetics 2 Place-making heroes and the storying of
Ireland's vernacular landscape 3 A versified Ireland: the Dindshenchas
Érenn and a national poetics of space 4 National pilgrims: travelling a
sanctified landscape with Saint Patrick 5 English topographies of Ireland's
conquest and conversion Conclusion Index