Environmental and ecological readings

Philippe LAPLACE
Date de publication
6 octobre 2015
Résumé
This volume features 17 articles devoted to various Scottish authors, from 18th c. travel writers to contemporary authors. The essays consider Nature and the environment in their relations to men and women and question how mankind is set to evolve in a contemporary world increasingly perceived as posthuman. They show how these concepts have affected Scottish authors and literature. The articles are presented chronologically, to highlight how each of the authors featured may have influenced the ensuing literary tradition. The 1st part focuses on 18th and 19th c. poets, novelists, artists or travel-writers, while the 2nd turns its attention to 20th and 21st c. authors.
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Date de première publication du titre 6 octobre 2015
ISBN 9782848675305
EAN-13 9782848675305
Référence 119117-39
Nombre de pages de contenu principal 310
Format 15 x 21 x 1.6 cm
Poids 456 g

Philippe Laplace – Introduction: Ecological Readings: Nature, Human and Posthuman Dimensions in Scottish literature and arts.

Part one: Nature and the Environment: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Anne McKim – 'A Full Idea of Your Own Country': Paradise or Wilderness? Scottish Tourists on the Home Tour;
Alan Riach – The Politics of Nature in 'Praise of Ben Dorain';
Christian Auer – The Representation of Land in the Gaelic Poetry of the Clearances;
Yann Tholoniat – Robert Burns: Nature's Bard and Nature's Powers;
Sarah Bisson – How Walter Scott Wrote the Scottish National Landscape. A Study of the Sublime and the Picturesque in Three Jacobite Novels;
Cyril Besson – Paradise Lost or Creation Regained? Nature and Culture in Walter Scott's Redgauntlet;
David Steel – Recreating an Ideal Landscape: a Community's Approach to the Designed Landscape of Cally;
Marion Amblard – The Evolution of the Representation of Highland Landscapes by Scottish Painters between the XVIIIth and the XXIst Centuries.

Part II: Nature, the Environment and the Posthuman: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Béatrice Duchateau – Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Landscape: Landscape as Sign;
Jean Berton – The Posthuman as an Oxymoronic Mirror to Man's Paradoxes in Iain Crichton Smith's 'Deer on the High Hills';
Robin MacKenzie – The Hieroglyphic of Raindrops: Reading the Signs of Nature in The Warlock of Strathearn by Christopher Whyte;
Monika Szuba – 'I think of Them as Guests': John Burnside's Encounters with Nature;
Stewart Smith – Basho Borne on the Carrying Stream: the Word-Mapping of Scotland and the Ecopoetics of Wind Power in Alec Finlay's The Road North and Skying;
William Welstead – 'Hoping No-One Will See the Difference': An Ecocritical Reading of Recent Poems by Meg Bateman;
Camille Manfredi – Scottish Petroliterature 1993-2013: Poetics of an Oil Spill;
Danièle Berton-Charrière – 'Land-scaping' the Scottish Stage and Drama;
Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen – Shall We Try 'Something New'?: The Posthuman in Brian McCabe.

– Notes on the Contributors

– Index

This volume features 17 articles devoted to various Scottish authors, from 18th c. travel writers to contemporary authors. The essays consider Nature and the environment in their relations to men and women and question how mankind is set to evolve in a contemporary world increasingly perceived as posthuman. They show how these concepts have affected Scottish authors and literature. The articles are presented chronologically, to highlight how each of the authors featured may have influenced the ensuing literary tradition. The 1st part focuses on 18th and 19th c. poets, novelists, artists or travel-writers, while the 2nd turns its attention to 20th and 21st c. authors.

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