Ecocriticism and the island
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This book explores a wide selection of island-themed creative non-fiction, offering new insights into the ways in which authors negotiate existing cultural tropes of the island while offering their own distinctive articulations of “islandness.” The book represents an important intervention into both island literary studies and ecocriticism.
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.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 07 januari 2023
Aantal pagina's: 276
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Pippa Marland
Hoofduitgeverij: Rowman & Littlefield International
Product breedte: 158 mm
Product hoogte: 21 mm
Product lengte: 237 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 158 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 21 mm
Verpakking lengte: 237 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 553 g
EAN: 9781786607089