Ecocriticism and the Island
Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago
Series: Rethinking the Island;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 7 January 2023
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781786607089
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages276 pages
- Size 236.73x157.99x21.336 mm
- Weight 553 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 b/w illustrations;1 tables; Illustrations, unspecified 277
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Long description:
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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.
Table of Contents:
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-race
4 The Living Island: Christine Evans' Bardsey
PART III: THE ISLAND ASSEMBLAGE
5 W. G. Sebald's Orfordness: Rewriting the Romantic Island
6 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 Birds
8 Thoughts of Home: Amy Liptrot's The Outrun
PART V: ISLANDS AT THE EDGE
9 '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
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