Overview
- Considers Scottish artists’ and writers’ response to recent political developments such as the referendum on Scottish independence, Brexit, and environmental issues
- Examines intermedial art, performance, and literature
- Illustrates modes of reclamation of space in post-devolution Scotland
Part of the book series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies (GSLS)
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This book examines how contemporary Scottish writers and artists revisit and reclaim nature in the political and aesthetic context of devolved Scotland. Camille Manfredi investigates the interaction of landscape aesthetics and strategies of spatial representation in Scotland’s twenty-first-century literature and arts, focusing on the apparatuses designed by nature writers, poets, performers, walking artists and visual artists to physically and intellectually engage with the land and re-present it to themselves and to the world. Through a comprehensive analysis of a variety of site-specific artistic practices, artworks and publications, this book investigates the works of Scotland-based artists including Linda Cracknell, Kathleen Jamie, Thomas A. Clark, Gerry Loose, John Burnside, Alec Finlay, Hamish Fulton, Hanna Tuulikki and Roseanne Watt, with a view to exploring the ongoing re-invention of a territory-bound identity that dwells on an inclusive sense of place, as well as ona complex renegotiation with the time and space of Scotland.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Camille Manfredi is Professor of Scottish Studies at the University of Nantes, France. Her published work includes the edited volume Alasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds (Palgrave 2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nature and Space in Contemporary Scottish Writing and Art
Authors: Camille Manfredi
Series Title: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18760-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18759-0Published: 13 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18762-0Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18760-6Published: 29 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2578-9694
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 217
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Contemporary Literature, Environmental Communication