The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Szuba, Monika (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Wolfreys, Julian (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Poetry.; British literature.; Contemporary Literature.; Poetry and Poetics.; British and Irish Literature.

This book addresses the poetics of space and place in Scottish literature. Focusing chiefly on twentieth- and twenty-first century texts, with acknowledgement of historical and philosophical contexts, the essays address representation, narrative form, the work of the poetic, perception and experienc...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Proximity of Scotland
• Location and Destination in Alasdair Mac Mhagihstir Alisdair's 'The Birlinn of Clanranald', Alan Riach
• Troubled Inheritances in R. L. Stevenson's Kidnapped and Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Priory School", Tom Ue
• From Dramatic Space to Narrative Place: George Mackay Brown's Time in a Red Coat, Paul Barnaby
• The Empty Places: Northern Archipelagos in Scottish Fiction, John Brannigan
• 'Keep looking, even when there's nothing much to see': Reimagining Scottish Landscapes in Kathleen Jamie's Non-Fiction, Ewa Chodnikiewicz
• Greenock-Outer Space: Place and Space in Ken McLeod's The Human Front and Descent, Jessica Aliaga Lavriisen
• 'The Wider Rootedness': John Burnside's Embodied Sense of Place, Monika Szuba
• 'Under the Saltire Flag': Kei Miller's Spatial Negotiations of Identity, Bartosz Wójcik
• A World of Islands: Archipelagic Poetics in Modern Scottish Literature, Alexandra Campbell
• From 'Pictish Artemis' to 'Tay Moses': Visions of the River Tay in Some Contemporary Scottish Poems, Robin MacKenzie
• Derick Thomson's An Rathad Cian (The Far Road, 1970): Modern Gaelic Poetry of Place between Introspection and Politics, Petra Johana Poncarová
• Glaswegian and Dundonian: Twa Mither Tongues Representing the Place and Space of Tom Leonard and Mark Thomson, Aniela Korzeniowska
• Take the Weather with You: Robin Robertson's Northeast Atmospherics of Landscape and Self, Julian Wolfreys
• Jon Schueler (1916-1992): Intensity and Identity, Mary Ann Caws.