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Stepping through Origins
Jefferson Holdridge
其他書名
Nature, Home, and Landscape in Irish Literature
出版
Syracuse University Press
, 2022-01-19
主題
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Nature
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
ISBN
0815655339
9780815655336
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=b5FTEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Since the eighteenth century, landscape has played complex psychological and political roles in the narrative of Irishness, entailing questions of memory, family, home, exile, and forgiveness. In Stepping through Origins, Holdridge explores the interplay of these concepts in literature. For Irish writers from Swift to Heaney, the Irish landscape has remained not only a reflection of Irish troubles but, much like aesthetic experience, a space in which the bitterness of family or national life can be understood, if not entirely overcome. Through deft analysis of works by leading Irish writers including Lady Morgan, Yeats, Joyce, Louis MacNeice, and Elizabeth Bowen, Holdridge expands and enriches our understanding of how landscape has served as a palimpsest for both family and country, connecting personal with collective memory, localized places with their regions, and individual with national identity.