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Full Description
Reassesses Scottish textual practice in the context of the natural and post-natural landscapes
Covers a range of the relationships between landscape, literature, and culture
Explores the lived relationship between form, content, and consciousness
Provides a phenomenological study of the intertwining of self and world, subject and landscape
Landscape Poetics is an interdisciplinary study that seeks to place Scottish writers in relation to their landscape, by investigating how the self is entwined in place. By examinining the writing and practice of particular modern and contemporary authors in the light of environmental thought, the study explores their lived, organic connection to the landscape. Landscape Poetics presents an argument that the relationship between author and world is expressed through the language of vibrant and engaged experience. Shepherd, MacCaig, Jamie, Clark and Finlay are seen as reinventing the perception of the landscape by proposing that the subject is no longer involved in the act of objectification, but is instead an embodied self that enters place, perceiving it more fully.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Towards a Phenomenological Reading of the Scottish Landscape
1.'This intricate interplay': The Interconnectedness of Place, Atmosphere and Living Matter in Nan Shepherd
2. 'Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses?': Logos of the Landscape in Norman MacCaig's Poetry
3. 'A wing's beat and it's gone': Between Transience and Permanence in Kathleen Jamie's Writing
4. 'A patch pegged out for closer examination': Thomas A Clark Poetic Practice
5. 'Acts of communal memory': Landscape, Memory and Place-names in Alec Finlay's Work
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