Book Description

[headline]Reassesses Scottish textual practice in the context of the natural and post-natural landscapes Landscape Poetics provides an interdisciplinary study that seeks to place Scottish writers in relation to their landscape, by investigating how the self is entwined in place. By examining the writing and practice of particular modern and contemporary authors in the light of environmental thought, Monika Szuba explores their lived, organic connection to the landscape. Landscape Poetics presents an argument that the relationship between author and world is expressed through the language of vibrant and engaged experience. Shepherd, MacCaig, Jamie, Clark and Finlay are seen as reinventing the perception of the landscape by proposing that the subject is no longer involved in the act of objectification, but is instead an embodied self that enters place, perceiving it more fully. [bio]Monika Szuba is Professor in Literature at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Gdańsk. Her research is concerned with modern and contemporary literature informed by Environmental Humanities, with particular interest in phenomenology. She is the author of Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World: Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White (2019), co-editor of Literary Invention and the Cartographic Imagination: Early Modern to Late Modern (2022), The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature (2019) and Reading Victorian Literature: Essays in Honour of J. Hillis Miller (2019), and editor of Boundless Scotland: Space in Scottish Fiction (2015).