The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature

Book Overview

Introduction: The Proximity of Scotland

Monika Szuba and Julian Wolfreys

I Contested Beginnings

Location and Destination in Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair'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

II Essaying Place: Fiction and Non-Fiction Prose Representations

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

III Figuring Land, Figuring Self: Poetics

'The Wider Rootedness': John Burnside's Embodied Sense of Place

Monika Szuba

'Under the Saltire Flag': Kei Miller's Spatial Negotiations of Identity

Bartosz W?jcik

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 Poncarov?

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

IV Afterword: from word to image

Jon Schueler (1916-1992): Intensity and Identity

Mary Ann Caws

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030126471
• ISBN13: 9783030126476
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"