Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2019
Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
ISBN (Hardback): 9783030126445
Full citation:
Monika Szuba, Julian Wolfreys (eds), The poetics of space and place in Scottish literature, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
The poetics of space and place in Scottish literature
Contents
Location and destination in Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair's "The birlinn of clanranald"
Alan Riach
17-30
Troubled inheritances in R. L. Stevenson's Kidnapped and Conan Doyle's "The adventure of the Priory school"
Tom Ue
31-46
"Keep looking, even when there's nothing much to see"
re-imagining Scottish landscapes in Kathleen Jamie's non-fiction
Ewa Chodnikiewicz
87-100
Greenock-outer space
place and space in Ken Macleod's the human front and descent
Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen
101-121
"Under the saltire flag"
Kei Miller's spatial negotiations of identity
Bartosz Wójcik
145-164
From "pictish artemis' to "tay moses"
visions of the river tay in some contemporary Scottish poems
Robin MacKenzie
187-208
Derick Thomson's An rathad cian (the far road, 1970)
modern gaelic poetry of place between introspection and politics
Petra Poncarová
209-229
Glaswegian and Dundonian
twa mither tongues representing the place and space of Tom Leonard and Mark Thomson
Aniela Korzeniowska
231-247
Take the weather with you
Robin Robertson's North-East coast atmospherics of landscape and self
Julian Wolfreys
249-273