Пространства с привидениями в Британской империи XXI века

Haunted Spaces in Twenty-First Century British Nature Writing

This study investigates the figure of haunting in the New Nature Writing. It begins with a historical survey of nature writing and traces how it came to represent an ideal of `natural` space as empty of human history and social conflict. Building on a theoretical framework which combines insights from ecocriticism and spatial theory, the author explores the spatial dimensions of haunting and `hauntology` and shows how 21st-century writers draw on a Gothic repertoire of seemingly supernatural occurrences and spectral imagery to portray `natural` space as disturbed, uncanny and socially contested. Iain Sinclair and Robert Macfarlane are revealed to apply psychogeography`s interest in `hidden histories` and haunted places to spaces associated with `wilderness` and `the countryside`. Kathleen Jamie`s allusions to the Gothic are put in relation to her feminist re-writing of `the outdoors`, and John Burnside`s use of haunting is shown to dismantle fictions of `the far north`. This book provides not only a discussion of a wide range of factual and fictional narratives of the present but also an analysis of the intertextual dialogue with the Romantic tradition which enfolds in these texts.

• Autor: Anneke Lubkowitz
• Wydawnictwo: De Gruyter
• Rok wydania: 2020
• Okładka: twarda
• Liczba stron: 301
• Wymiary: 15.5 x 23 x 2.1 cm
• Język: Angielski
• ISBN: 9783110678598