Monika Szuba

Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World (eBook, ePUB)

Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474450638
• Artikelnr.: 72421531

Autorenporträt

Monika Szuba is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Gdansk. The author of numerous articles and book chapters, she is also co-editor of The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature (Palgrave Macmillan). In addition, she is a translator, particularly of poetry from English to Polish, and has translated the work of John Burnside, David Constantine, Michael Edwards, Kathleen Jamie, Alan Riach, and Julian Wolfreys, amongst others.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Wandering in the Open World: Kenneth White's Poetics
2. 'Buried in the flesh': Home, Embodiment, and Interanimality in John
Burnside's Work
3. 'Gifts of the Wild': Dwelling, Temporality, and Landscape in Kathleen
Jamie's Writing
4. 'A word will set the seed / of life and death': Robin Robertson's
Protean Lyric
Bibliography
Index.