A Landscape of Words : Ireland, Britain and the Poetics of Space, 700–1250
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
ISBN-10
1526141108
ISBN-13
9781526141101
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 14th, 2019
Print length
264 Pages
Weight
485 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 13.80 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: classical, early & medievalBritish & Irish historyMedieval history
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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. -- .
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.
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