A01=Daniel Weston
Author_Daniel Weston
Belfast Confetti
Carson's Poetry
Carson's Texts
Carson's Writing
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Category=DSBH
Contemporary British Poetry
contemporary landscape writing analysis
Contemporary Literary Landscapes
Critical Literary Geography
East Anglian Landscape
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experiential aesthetics
Fluid Oscillation
genre boundaries
Harriet Tarlo
HMS Belfast
Hollow Ay
John Dos Passos's Manhattan
landscape phenomenology
Landscape Writing
literary geography
London Orbital
Macfarlane's Work
Non-representational Theory
place representation
Sebald's Texts
Sebald's Work
Sebald's Writing
Sinclair's Texts
Sinclair's Writing
spatial narrative theory
St George's Hill
Star Factory
texts
Wild Places
Product details
- ISBN 9781472474650
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Dec 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Writing landscapes inevitably occurs in dialogue with a long textual and pictorial tradition, but first-hand experience also provides key stimuli to many writers’ accounts. This monograph employs a comparative lens to offer an intervention in debates between literary scholars who focus on genre and those cultural geographers who are concerned that self-perpetuating literary tropes marginalize practical engagements. Suggesting that representation and experience are not competing paradigms for landscape, Daniel Weston argues that in the hands of contemporary writers they are complementary forces building composite articulations of place. In five case studies, Weston matches a writer to a mode of apprehending place - W.G. Sebald with picturing, Ciaran Carson with mapping, Iain Sinclair with walking, Robert Macfarlane with engaging, Kathleen Jamie with noticing. Drawing out a range of sites at which representation and experience interact, Weston's argument is twofold: first, interaction between traditions of landscape writing and direct experience of landscapes are mutually influential; and second, writers increasingly deploy style, form, and descriptive aesthetics to recover the experience of place in the poetics of the text itself. As Weston shows, emergent landscape writing shuttles across generic boundaries, reflecting the fact that the landscapes traversed are built out of a combination of real and imaginary sources.
Daniel Weston is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century English Literature at the University of Hull, UK.
