Irish contemporary landscapes in literature and the arts

Looking at representations of the Irish landscape in contemporary literature and the arts, this volume discusses the economic, political and environmental issues associated with it, questioning the myths behind Ireland's landscape, from the first Greek descriptions to present day post Celtic-Tiger architecture. MARIA MIANOWSKI Lecturer at the University of Nantes, France, where she teaches Irish Studies, Lliterature and translation classes for undergraduate andpostgraduate students. She is the author of a PhD thesis on Flann O'Brien's fiction and of articles on Irish contemporary literature and the representations of landscape and exile. INDICE: Acknowledgments - List of Maps - List of Charts - List of Illustrations - Notes on Authors - Introduction - SECTION I: FROM ANCIENT TO CONTEMPORARY MYTHS - PART I: BIRTH OF THE IRISH LANDSCAPE AND THE MYTH OF LOSS - From Ancient Geographers to the Journey of the Argonauts: Ierne Island (Ireland), a Landscape Island Between Two Worlds; 'L.André - 'Landscape, Senchas and the Medieval Irish Mind; 'D.Hamon - 'Translating the Facts of Landscape into the Facts of Language: Ethnoecological Ruminations on Glossopoiesis in Early Ireland;'F.Bennett - 'Language and Landscapes of Ireland; 'J.McCabe - 'PART II: CONTEMPORARY LITERARY MYTHS - Derek Mahon's Seascapes Mediated through Greece: Antiquity in Modernity, Nature in Abstraction; 'J.Kruczkowska - 'Fictionalising Division: The Urban Landscapes of Belfast, Beirut and Berli; 'S.Schwerter - ''The post-past city': Apocalyptic Cityscapes and Cultural Stagnation in the Fiction of Sean O'Reilly; 'F.McCann - 'Lived and Learned Landscapes: Literary Geographies and the Irish Topographical Tradition; 'N.Cronin - 'Landscapes in Movement: Cosmopolitanism and the Poetics of Space in Colum McCann's Fiction; 'S.Mikowski - 'SECTION II: DIVISION AND GLOBALIZATION: OPPOSITION OR SYMBIOSIS? - PART I: BORDERSCAPING - Monumental Landscapes: Riding the Boundaries of an Independent Ireland with the Early Sinn Féin Movement; 'M.Staunton - 'Irish Nationalism and the Natural Insular Landscape of Ireland Before Partition: Insularity Versus the Wishes of the Inhabitants; 'P.Cauvet - 'The Irish Border as a Cultural Landscape; 'C.McCall - 'Rural Development in the Border Areas: From 'borderscaping' to Cross-border Planning; 'M.C.Considère-Charon - 'PART II: LOCAL HERITAGE AND GLOBAL SPEED - The Altered Edge. The Impact of the Construction Boom on the Landscape of the Urban Periphery; 'G.Cahill - 'Our landscape, Our Heritage - Building Toward a New Legislative Approach to Empower Local Communities; 'M.Starrett - 'Standardizing Terminology for Landscape Categorisation - an Irish Agri-environment Perspective; 'J.Whelan et al - 'The Metropolitan CorkGreen Belt: Synergies and Tensions Between Strategic and Local Understandingsof Landscape Value; 'B.O'Sullivan' &' K.Ray - 'SECTION III: CONTEMPORARY VISIONS AND CREATIONS: THE CHALLENGE OF ART - The Renaissance of the Forest in Contemporary Art in Ireland;' Y.Scott - 'The Geography of the Place in Doherty's Work; 'C.Grout - 'Sculpture in the Irish Landscape; 'P.Murphy - 'Transforming the City: The Stakes of Cultural and Artistic Landscaping in Post Conflict Belfast; 'H.Alfaro - 'Ballymun in Dermot Bolger's Plays: Beyond the Urban Landscape; 'E.Dumay - 'Belfast: An Eyeless City; 'C.Crochet' &' C.Giriat - 'Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-31939-4
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 336
• Fecha Publicación: 09/12/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés