A landscape of words (eBook)

Ireland, Britain and the poetics of space, 700–1250

Amy C. Mulligan (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
264 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-4112-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 years. It argues that the Irish theorised anew the concept of ‘place’ and developed a ‘spatial turn’ that reconfigured how communities in the Irish Sea region thought about writing, place and identity.

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Living on an island at the edge of the known world, the medieval Irish were in a unique position to examine the spaces of the North Atlantic region and contemplate how geography can shape a people. This book is the first full-length study of medieval Irish topographical writing. It situates the theories and poetics of Irish place – developed over six centuries in response to a variety of political, cultural, religious and economic changes – in the bigger theoretical picture of studies of space, landscape, environmental writing and postcolonial identity construction. Presenting focused studies of important literary texts by authors from Ireland and Britain, it shows how these discourses influenced European conceptions of place and identity, as well as understandings of how to write the world.

Autor

Amy C. Mulligan is Assistant Professor of Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame

Inhalt

Introduction
1 Holy islands: transformative landscapes and the origins of an Irish spatial poetics
2 Place-making heroes and the storying of Ireland’s vernacular landscape
3 A versified Ireland: the Dindshenchas Érenn and a national poetics of space
4 National pilgrims: travelling a sanctified landscape with Saint Patrick
5 English topographies of Ireland’s conquest and conversion
Conclusion
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): James Paz, Anke Bernau, David Matthews
• Zusatzinfo: 4 black & white illustrations
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Environmental Studies • Gerald of Wales • Landscape and Environmental Studies • Medieval Britain and Ireland • North Atlantic Literature • Otherworld / otherworld literature • Pilgrimage and travel literature • Placelore • Postcolonialism or national identity formation • Spatial Theory
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-4112-4 / 1526141124
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-4112-5 / 9781526141125