The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature

ISBN-13: 9783030126445 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 304 str.

Monika Szuba; Julian Wolfreys

Spis treści

Introduction: The Proximity of Scotland

Monika Szuba and Julian Wolfreys

 

I Contested Beginnings

Location and Destination in Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair’s ‘The Birlinn of Clanranald’

Alan Riach

 

Troubled Inheritances in R. L. Stevenson’s Kidnapped and Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Priory School”

Tom Ue

 

II Essaying Place: Fiction and Non-Fiction Prose Representations

From Dramatic Space to Narrative Place: George Mackay Brown’s Time in a Red Coat

Paul Barnaby

 

The Empty Places: Northern Archipelagos in Scottish Fiction

John Brannigan

 

‘Keep looking, even when there’s nothing much to see’: Reimagining Scottish Landscapes in Kathleen Jamie’s Non-Fiction

Ewa Chodnikiewicz

 

Greenock-Outer Space: Place and Space in Ken McLeod’s The Human Front and Descent

Jessica Aliaga Lavriisen

 

III Figuring Land, Figuring Self: Poetics

‘The Wider Rootedness’: John Burnside’s Embodied Sense of Place

Monika Szuba

 

‘Under the Saltire Flag’: Kei Miller’s Spatial Negotiations of Identity

Bartosz Wójcik

 

A World of Islands: Archipelagic Poetics in Modern Scottish Literature

Alexandra Campbell

 

From ‘Pictish Artemis’ to ‘Tay Moses’: Visions of the River Tay in Some Contemporary Scottish Poems

Robin MacKenzie

 

Derick Thomson’s An Rathad Cian (The Far Road, 1970):

Modern Gaelic Poetry of Place between Introspection and Politics

Petra Johana Poncarová

 

Glaswegian and Dundonian: Twa Mither Tongues Representing the Place and Space of Tom Leonard and Mark Thomson

Aniela Korzeniowska

 

Take the Weather with You: Robin Robertson’s Northeast Atmospherics of Landscape and Self

Julian Wolfreys

 

IV Afterword: from word to image

Jon Schueler (1916-1992): Intensity and Identity

Mary Ann Caws

O autorze

Monika Szuba is Lecturer in English with the University of Gdańsk, Poland. Her research covers twentieth- and twenty-first century Scottish and English poetry and prose, with a particular interest in ecocriticism, informed by the Environmental Humanities. She is the author of Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World: Burnside, Jamie, Robertson, White (forthcoming). She is co-editor, with Julian Wolfreys, of Reading Victorian Literature: Essays in Honour of J. Hillis Miller (forthcoming).

Julian Wolfreys is an independent scholar, UK, and the author or editor of more than forty books, most recently Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture: 1800-Present (Palgrave 2018).