From Landscapes to Cityscapes
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-80079-870-0 (ISBN)
lt;p>The study of place and place attachments has been a staple subject of enquiry in the field of Irish studies, which ever since the emergence of an Irish ecocritical scholarship in the early 2000s has acquired a new depth. Recent publications have integrated an environmental dimension that connects literary analyses to wider cultural and global concerns such as deforestation, urban sprawl, immigration, climate change and so on. Building on the existing scholarship, the present study offers readings from modern Irish verse in the light of Ireland's natural and cultural landscapes. Simply put, From Landscapes to Cityscapes should be viewed as a minor ecocritical exercise in Irish studies, hoping to inspire new perspectives that arise out of an environmental scrutiny of the same old questions of place and identity in Irish literature.
The textual analysis focuses on the works of three major Irish poets of the modern period: William Butler Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh and Louis MacNeice. Contesting the often politicized and historicist boundaries set for defining Irishness and arguing for a recognition of new voices and marginal identities, this book considers a range of land/cityscapes in terms of their significance to the development of a more comprehensive view of both culture and environment in Ireland.
Marjan Shokouhi completed her doctoral studies at the University of Sunderland and is currently a faculty member at the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Granada, Spain. Her interests include Irish Studies, modern poetry, world literature and creative writing.
Contents: Wilderness Narratives: De- spirited Forests, Deforested Landscapes – The Land/ Mindscape of Yeats’s Ireland – Countryside Narratives: Rural Ireland in Irish Revival Literature – Towards a Poetics of Dwelling: Patrick Kavanagh and the Countryside – City Narratives: An Urban Sense of Place in Modern Irish Literature – Patrick Kavanagh in Dublin: The Irish Flâneur and the Big City – Louis MacNeice’s North: The ‘Incorrigibly Plural’ Sense of Place in Modern Irish Poetry.
Marjan Shokouhi's new book From Landscapes to Cityscapes attests to the ways in which Irish ecocritical scholarship has developed into more than a simple "subfield" of Irish Studies. Shokouhi takes readers on a fascinating journey through the work of three iconic Irish poets in the modern period - Yeats, Kavanagh and MacNeice - from the burgeoning perspective of Irish ecological criticism, exhibiting the complexities of the Irish Literary Revival in addressing questions of place and identity and opening new avenues of research in relation to new voices and marginal identities. Pilar Villar-Argáiz University of Granada, Spain From wild ancient forests to the Lagan riverside, From Landscapes to Cityscapes offers a new take on the sense of place in modern Irish poetry. Using Heidegger's concept of dwelling, it examines the verse of Yeats, Kavanagh and Macneice from an ecocritical perspective in a worthy contribution to the field. Audrey Robitaillié Lecturer in Anglophone Literature and Irish Studies
Marjan Shokouhi’s new book From Landscapes to Cityscapes attests to the ways in which Irish ecocritical scholarship has developed into more than a simple “subfield” of Irish Studies. Shokouhi takes readers on a fascinating journey through the work of three iconic Irish poets in the modern period – Yeats, Kavanagh and MacNeice – from the burgeoning perspective of Irish ecological criticism, exhibiting the complexities of the Irish Literary Revival in addressing questions of place and identity and opening new avenues of research in relation to new voices and marginal identities.
Pilar Villar-Argáiz
University of Granada, Spain
From wild ancient forests to the Lagan riverside, From Landscapes to Cityscapes offers a new take on the sense of place in modern Irish poetry. Using Heidegger’s concept of dwelling, it examines the verse of Yeats, Kavanagh and Macneice from an ecocritical perspective in a worthy contribution to the field.
Audrey Robitaillié
Lecturer in Anglophone Literature and Irish Studies
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.09.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Reimagining Ireland ; 125 |
| Mitarbeit |
Herausgeber (Serie): Eamon Maher |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 383 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Schlagworte | cityscapes • Dwelling • Eamon • Ecocriticism • FROM LANDSCAPES TO CITYSCAPES • Irish • Irish poetry and sense of place • Landscapes • Landscapes and identities • Maher • Marjan • MARJAN SHOKOUHI • Mason • Modern • Poetics • Shokouhi • Tony • TOWARDS A POETICS OF DWELLING IN MODERN IRISH VERSE • Verse |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80079-870-9 / 1800798709 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80079-870-0 / 9781800798700 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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