Author: John VeitchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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The Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry
Author: John VeitchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Ecology and Modern Scottish Literature
Author: Louisa GairnPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748631984
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book presents a provocative and timely reconsideration of modern Scottish literature in the light of ecological thought. Louisa Gairn demonstrates how successive generations of Scottish writers have both reflected on and contributed to the development of international ecological theory and philosophy. Provocative re-readings of works by authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, John Muir, Nan Shepherd, John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie and George Mackay Brown demonstrate the significance of ecological thought across the spectrum of Scottish literary culture. This book traces the influence of ecology as a scientific, philosophical and political concept in the work of these and other writers and in doing so presents an original outlook on Scottish literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
The Feeling for Nature in English Pastoral Poetry
Author: John Ingram BryanPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World
Author: Monika SzubaPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474450628
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Examines the representation of landscape in the poetry of John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, Robin Robertson and Kenneth White Provides 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.
Findings
Author: Kathleen JamiePublisher: Sort of Books
ISBN: 1908745096
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Award-winning poet Kathleen Jamie has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In Findings she draws together these themes to describe travels like no other contemporary writer. Whether she is following the call of a peregrine in the hills above her home in Fife, sailing into a dark winter solstice on the Orkney islands, or pacing around the carcass of a whale on a rain-swept Hebridean beach, she creates a subtle and modern narrative, peculiarly alive to her connections and surroundings.
The Careful Use of Compliments
Author: Alexander McCall SmithPublisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307371719
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Full-time philosopher and occasional sleuth Isabel Dalhousie, now the mother of a baby boy, is getting used to the new rhythms of her life, caring for little Charlie with the sometimes unsettling aid of her forthright housekeeper, Grace, having dinners with Charlie’s father, Jamie, and tending as usual to submissions to the Review of Applied Ethics. But Isabel is deeply unsettled when she receives a letter telling her that she is soon to be replaced as editor of the Review by Christopher Dove, an ambitious academic at a London university, and she considers a variety of ways of dealing with this unwelcome news. And her niece, Cat, who a couple of years before had rejected Jamie and broken his heart, is now furious at Isabel for having stolen him away. Isabel’s insatiable curiosity—or what Jamie sees as her tendency toward meddling—is peaked when she learns some odd details regarding two paintings by a Scottish artist that have come onto the auction market, and she begins to think that the paintings might be forgeries. Her investigation takes her to the beautiful Isle of Jura, where she finds some recent traces of the painter and learns of his apparent suicide in the fabled whirlpool called the Corryvreckan. A visit to the painter’s widow brings a surprising realization, one that contributes to her musings throughout the story on mothers, fathers, and sons.
The Interpretation of Nature in English Poetry from Beowulf to Shakespeare
Author: Frederic William MoormanPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Sightlines
Author: Kathleen JamiePublisher: The Experiment, LLC
ISBN: 1615191755
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Winner of the 2014 Orion Book Award for Nonfiction Winner of the John Burroughs Association 2014 Medal for Distinguished Natural History Book In Sightlines, Kathleen Jamie reports from the field—from her native Scottish “byways and hills” to the frigid Arctic in fourteen enthralling essays. She dissects whatever her gaze falls upon—vistas of cells beneath a hospital microscope, orcas rounding a headland, the aurora borealis lighting up the frozen sea. In so doing, she questions what, exactly, constitutes “nature,” and upends the idea that it is always picturesque. Written with precision, subtlety, and wry humor, Sightlines urges the reader: “Keep looking, even when there’s nothing much to see.”
Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach- und Culturgeschichte der germanischen Völker
Author: The Theocritean Element in the Works of William Wordsworth
Author: Leslie Nathan BroughtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description