Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World : Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White

Szuba, Monika

Edinburgh University Press（2019/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 186 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474450607
• DDC分類 821.00936

Full Description

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.

Contents

AcknowledgementsIntroduction

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

BibliographyIndex.