Nature and Space in Contemporary Scottish Writing and Art

• Main Author: Manfredi, Camille (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• 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: British literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Communication.; Environmental sciences.; British and Irish Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; Environmental Communication.

This book examines how contemporary Scottish writers and artists revisit and reclaim nature in the political and aesthetic context of devolved Scotland. Camille Manfredi investigates the interaction of landscape aesthetics and strategies of spatial representation in Scotland's twenty-first-cent...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Chapter 1/ 'Our Land': an introduction
• 2. Chapter 2/ Keeping the paths beaten: Robert Macfarlane, Linda Cracknell and Stuart McAdam's hodological Scotland
• 3. Chapter 3 / Land made by walking: Andrew Greig, Thomas A. Clark, Hamish Fulton, or, the art of passing through
• 4. Chapter 4 / Spacings: Gerry Loose and Kathleen Jamie's interspecies relationalities
• 5. Chapter 5 / Into the Fold: Kathleen Jamie and John Burnside's oikopoetics
• 6. Chapter 6/ Things of space: Andy Goldsworthy's Sheepfolds and Alec Finlay's Company of Mountains, or, materialising as re-siting
• 7. Chapter 7 / Soundmarks and ecotones: ensounding Scotland
• 8. Chapter 8 / Filming Space: transenunciation as re-production. Susan Kemp's Nort Atlantik Drift: A Portrait of Robert Alan Jamieson and Roseanne Watt's Quoys
• 9. Chapter 9 / The hyperzone: is there a space on this screen?
• 10. Chapter 10 / Conclusion.