Format:
1 Online-Ressource (VI, 293 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783110678611
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9783110678642
Series Statement:
Buchreihe der Anglia volume 69
Content:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Nature Writing noir -- 1. Writing Nature: A Historical Survey -- 2. Haunting Nature: Place, Space and Text -- 3. The Spectropoetics of Walking: Iain Sinclair and Robert Macfarlane -- 4. De-Crypting the Gendered Outdoors with Kathleen Jamie -- 5. Unweaving Fictions of the Far North with John Burnside -- 6. Many Voices? Broadening the Vision -- Works Cited -- Index
Content:
This study investigates the figure of haunting in the New Nature Writing. It begins with a historical survey of nature writing and traces how it came to represent an ideal of ‘natural’ space as empty of human history and social conflict. Building on a theoretical framework which combines insights from ecocriticism and spatial theory, the author explores the spatial dimensions of haunting and ‘hauntology’ and shows how 21st-century writers draw on a Gothic repertoire of seemingly supernatural occurrences and spectral imagery to portray ‘natural’ space as disturbed, uncanny and socially contested. Iain Sinclair and Robert Macfarlane are revealed to apply psychogeography’s interest in ‘hidden histories’ and haunted places to spaces associated with ‘wilderness’ and ‘the countryside’. Kathleen Jamie’s allusions to the Gothic are put in relation to her feminist re-writing of ‘the outdoors’, and John Burnside’s use of haunting is shown to dismantle fictions of ‘the far north’. This book provides not only a discussion of a wide range of factual and fictional narratives of the present but also an analysis of the intertextual dialogue with the Romantic tradition which enfolds in these texts
Note:
Dissertation Humboldt Universität Berlin 2018
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110678598
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lubkowitz, Anneke, 1990 - Haunted spaces in twenty-first century British nature writing Berlin : De Gruyter, 2020 ISBN 9783110678598
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Natur
;
Das Unheimliche
;
Wildnis
;
Geschichte 2000-2020
;
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Natur
;
Das Unheimliche
;
Wildnis
;
Geschichte 2000-2020
;
Sinclair, Iain 1943-
;
Macfarlane, Robert 1976-
;
Jamie, Kathleen 1962-
;
Burnside, John 1955-2024
;
Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783110678611
Author information:
Lubkowitz, Anneke 1990-
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