This book explores a wide selection of island-themed creative non-fiction, offering new insights into the ways in which authors negotiate existing cultural tropes of the island while offering their own distinctive articulations of "islandness." The book represents an important intervention into both island literary studies and ecocriticism.
This book explores a wide selection of island-themed creative non-fiction, offering new insights into the ways in which authors negotiate existing cultural tropes of the island while offering their own distinctive articulations of "islandness." The book represents an important intervention into both island literary studies and ecocriticism.
Acknowledgements List of illustrations Preface Introduction PART I: APPROACHING THE ISLAND 1 Taking the 'Good Step' in Tim Robinson's Stones of Aran 2 The 'World-Hungry Art of Words': Tim Robinson's Formal Dialectic PART II: MATERIAL IMMERSION 3 'The Past Is Too Much with Us': Material Remains in Brenda Chamberlain's Tide-race 4 The Living Island: Christine Evans' Bardsey PART III: THE ISLAND ASSEMBLAGE 5 W. G. Sebald's Orfordness: Rewriting the Romantic Island 6 Reading Things: Sebald's Melancholy Resistance PART IV: ARCHIPELAGIC REFRACTION 7 Stories from the 'Heart of the World': Stephen Watts' Republic of Dogs/Republic of Birds 8 Thoughts of Home: Amy Liptrot's The Outrun PART V: ISLANDS AT THE EDGE 9 'Signs of Strangeness': the guga Hunt in Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways and the Plastic Doll's Head in Kathleen Jamie's 'Findings' 10 From the Stone Age to the Age of Satellites: Anthropocene Islands Epilogue: Archipelagic Ecocriticism Bibliography Index About the Autho
Acknowledgements List of illustrations Preface Introduction PART I: APPROACHING THE ISLAND 1 Taking the 'Good Step' in Tim Robinson's Stones of Aran 2 The 'World-Hungry Art of Words': Tim Robinson's Formal Dialectic PART II: MATERIAL IMMERSION 3 'The Past Is Too Much with Us': Material Remains in Brenda Chamberlain's Tide-race 4 The Living Island: Christine Evans' Bardsey PART III: THE ISLAND ASSEMBLAGE 5 W. G. Sebald's Orfordness: Rewriting the Romantic Island 6 Reading Things: Sebald's Melancholy Resistance PART IV: ARCHIPELAGIC REFRACTION 7 Stories from the 'Heart of the World': Stephen Watts' Republic of Dogs/Republic of Birds 8 Thoughts of Home: Amy Liptrot's The Outrun PART V: ISLANDS AT THE EDGE 9 'Signs of Strangeness': the guga Hunt in Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways and the Plastic Doll's Head in Kathleen Jamie's 'Findings' 10 From the Stone Age to the Age of Satellites: Anthropocene Islands Epilogue: Archipelagic Ecocriticism Bibliography Index About the Autho
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