The Collected Works of Kenneth White, Volume 3 : Between Two Worlds: Autobiography (The Collected Works of Kenneth White)

White, Kenneth/ Craig, Cairns (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2025/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399531351
• DDC分類 828.91409

Full Description

Kenneth White achieved fame in his adopted country of France as a poet, essayist and travel writer. His status was confirmed in 1983 by his appointment as Professor of Twentieth-Century Poetics at the Sorbonne in Paris, from which position, in 1989, he founded the International Institute of Geopoetics which helped establish 'geopoetics', that White had first proposed in the 1970s, as a distinct and recognised discipline in the humanities. Between Two Worlds is White's account of how a working-class Scot from Ayrshire became a prominent figure in French cultural and intellectual life, despite having been sacked by the university where he was teaching for his part in the student revolt of 1968. It explains the intellectual energies that went into the creation of 'geopoetics' and the style and purpose of his distinctive mode of travel-writing. It is also the story of how he and his wife Marie-Claude set about bringing back to life abandoned properties in the Ardeche and in Brittan.

Contents

A Note on the Text
Prologue

1. Origins
2. The Rites of Childhood
3. The Ayrshire Scholar
4. The Glasgow Student
5. The Shack at the Edge of the World
6. The Suspension Bridge
7. Midnight Montparnasse
8. Song of the South
9. Moving Times on the Moon
10. The Revolt of '68 and its Aftermath
11. An Eventful Year in the Floating World
12. The Light of the Pyrenees
13. On the Literary Scene
14. Euramerasian Peregrinations
15. Radio Sorbonne Calling
16. Reconnection with Scotland
17. The Atlantic House