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Contemporary Literary Landscapes

The Poetics of Experience

Contemporary Literary Landscapes

The Poetics of Experience

ByDaniel Weston
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 15 May 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315573861
Pages 176 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315573861
SubjectsBuilt Environment, Geography, Language & Literature
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Weston, D. (2016). Contemporary Literary Landscapes. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315573861

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |19 pages
Introduction
Articulating Place
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chapter 1|25 pages
Picturing: W.G. Sebald
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chapter 2|27 pages
Mapping: Ciaran Carson
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chapter 3|29 pages
Walking: Iain Sinclair
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chapter 4|21 pages
Engaging: Robert Macfarlane
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chapter 5|17 pages
Noticing: Kathleen Jamie
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chapter |5 pages
Afterword
Testifying to Place
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