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Ecocriticism and the Island
Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago
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2022
Summary
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.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-78660-708-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-78660-709-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
255
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Acknowledgements No access
List of illustrations No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 26
1 Taking the ‘Good Step’ in Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran No access
2 The ‘World-Hungry Art of Words’: Tim Robinson’s Formal Dialectic No access
3 ‘The Past Is Too Much with Us’: Material Remains in Brenda Chamberlain’s Tide-race No access
4 The Living Island: Christine Evans’ Bardsey No access
5 W. G. Sebald’s Orfordness: Rewriting the Romantic Island No access
6 Reading Things: Sebald’s Melancholy Resistance No access
7 Stories from the ‘Heart of the World’: Stephen Watts’ Republic of Dogs/Republic of Birds No access
8 Thoughts of Home: Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun No access
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’ No access
10 From the Stone Age to the Age of Satellites: Anthropocene Islands No access
Epilogue: Archipelagic Ecocriticism No access Pages 223 - 228
