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Autore: | Smith Jos <1980-> |
Titolo: | The new nature writing : rethinking the literature of place / / Jos Smith |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 508.41 |
Soggetto topico: | Natural history literature - Great Britain |
Natural history - Great Britain - Authorship | |
English prose literature - History and criticism | |
Landscapes in literature | |
Bioregionalism in literature | |
Place (Philosophy) in literature | |
Nature in literature | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1. The Local -- 2. The Wild -- 3. Edgelands -- 4. Periphery -- 5. Archipelago -- 6. Geologies -- Afterword: Lyrics Place -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Sommario/riassunto: | "In the last decade, the proliferation and popularity of landscape writing in Britain and Ireland -- often referred to as "the new nature writing' -- has unearthed an intricate labyrinth of horizons to contemporary writing about place. The New Nature Writing: Rethinking Place in Contemporary Literature offers the first critical study of the genre. Drawing on original interviews with authors, archival research, and the latest scholarly work in the fields of literary geographies, critical localism and archipelagic criticism, the book covers the work of such writers as Robert MacFarlane, Richard Mabey and Alice Oswald. Examining the ways in which these writers have engaged with a wide range of different environments, from the edgelands to island spaces, Jos Smith reveals how they recreate a resourceful and dynamic sense of localism in rebellion against the homogenising growth of 'clone town Britain.'"-- |
Titolo autorizzato: | The new nature writing |
ISBN: | 1-4742-7504-4 |
1-4742-7502-8 | |
1-4742-7503-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910511740503321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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