Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World : : Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White / / Monika Szuba.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Szuba, Monika,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (186 p.)

Examines the representation of landscape in the poetry of John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, Robin Robertson and Kenneth WhiteProvides an interdisciplinary approach to the representation of landscape in contemporary poetryOpens up the dialogue between ecocriticism and phenomenologyProvides significant original discussion of major Scottish poetsReassesses the work and place of Kenneth White’s poetry and thoughtWith an exciting and provocative approach to the reading of landscape and the non-human world in the work of four major Scottish poets, this groundbreaking book merges phenomenology and ecocritical literary criticism. It explores these poets’ organic, intimate interrelation between the self and the world, their relationship to the landscape and connection with nature.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Wandering in the Open World: Kenneth White’s Poetics -- 2. ‘Buried in the flesh’: Home, Embodiment and Interanimality in John Burnside’s Work -- 3. ‘Gifts of the Wild’: Dwelling, Temporality and Landscape in Kathleen Jamie’s Writing -- 4. ‘A word will set the seed / of life and death’: Robin Robertson’s Protean Lyric -- Bibliography -- Index