Ecocriticism and the Island

Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago

AvPippa Marland

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Islands have long been the subject of cultural fascination, but in recent decades, they have exerted an increasingly powerful centrifugal force, sending writers to the outer edges of the British-Irish archipelago in search of inspiration and insight. Drawing on contemporary ecocritical approaches, island studies, and emergent archipelagic perspectives, Ecocriticism and the Island explores a wide selection of island-themed creative non-fiction. Through a combination of textual analysis, and, where possible, original interviews and archival research, Pippa Marland offers new insights into the work of Tim Robinson, Brenda Chamberlain, Christine Evans, W.G. Sebald, Stephen Watts, Amy Liptrot, Kathleen Jamie, Adam Nicolson, Robert Macfarlane, and David Gange. In assessing the ways in which these authors negotiate existing cultural tropes of the island while offering their own distinctive articulations of “islandness,” this book represents an important intervention into island literary studies. At the same time, it contributes to the development of an archipelagic strand of ecocriticism—one that offers a valuable perspective on human-environmental relationships in an Anthropocene context.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-01-07
Mått:158 x 237 x 21 mm
Vikt:553 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Rethinking the Island
Antal sidor:276
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781786607089

Utforska kategorier

Geografi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Pippa Marland is a lecturer in humanities at the University of Bristol, UK.

Recensioner i media

Ecocriticism and the Island is a fascinating study of the diversity and importance of literature and life across the north Atlantic archipelago. Written with clarity and insight, it is a guide to the histories of communities around Ireland and Britain and an augur of our collective future through engagement with art, language, and climate science, all brought together in a compelling critical and creative narrative. It is an important addition to the archipelagic and blue humanities and marks a good step forward in island thinking.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements List of illustrations Preface Introduction PART I: APPROACHING THE ISLAND 1 Taking the ‘Good Step’ in Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran 2 The ‘World-Hungry Art of Words’: Tim Robinson’s Formal Dialectic PART II: MATERIAL IMMERSION 3 ‘The Past Is Too Much with Us’: Material Remains in Brenda Chamberlain’s Tide-race4 The Living Island: Christine Evans’ Bardsey PART III: THE ISLAND ASSEMBLAGE 5 W. G. Sebald’s Orfordness: Rewriting the Romantic Island6 Reading Things: Sebald’s Melancholy Resistance PART IV: ARCHIPELAGIC REFRACTION 7 Stories from the ‘Heart of the World’: Stephen Watts’ Republic of Dogs/Republic of Birds8 Thoughts of Home: Amy Liptrot’s The OutrunPART V: ISLANDS AT THE EDGE9 ‘Signs of Strangeness’: the guga Hunt in Robert Macfarlane’s The Old Ways and the Plastic Doll’s Head in Kathleen Jamie’s ‘Findings’10 From the Stone Age to the Age of Satellites: Anthropocene Islands Epilogue: Archipelagic Ecocriticism Bibliography Index About the Autho