Amy C. Mulligan

A landscape of words

Ireland, Britain and the poetics of space, 700-1250

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 years. It argues that the Irish theorised anew the concept of 'place' and developed a 'spatial turn' that reconfigured how communities in the Irish Sea region thought about writing, place and identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781526141101
• ISBN-10: 1526141108
• Artikelnr.: 55190496

Autorenporträt

Amy C. Mulligan is Assistant Professor of Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Holy islands: transformative landscapes and the origins of
an Irish spatial poetics 2 Place-making heroes and the storying of
Ireland's vernacular landscape 3 A versified Ireland: the Dindshenchas
Érenn and a national poetics of space 4 National pilgrims: travelling a
sanctified landscape with Saint Patrick 5 English topographies of Ireland's
conquest and conversion Conclusion Index