A Landscape of Words: Ireland, Britain and the Poetics of Space, 7001250

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This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 years. It argues that the Irish theorised anew the concept of 'place' and developed a 'spatial turn' that reconfigured how communities in the Irish Sea region thought about writing, place and identity. -- .

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'This scintillating book persuasively argues for an Irish poetics of space.'
The North American journal of Celtic Studies

'Scholars of the literatures and cultures of the medieval North Atlantic world broadly, and of Ireland specifically, will find this an indispensable and vibrant study for thinking more deeply into the concepts of the geospatial turn, literary marginalization and centralization of Ireland and the Irish, and the writing of landscape and environment, while scholars of the poetics of space should find this book a very welcome invitation to further reflection upon
the relationship of author and reader to text and of text and words to place.'
Journal of English and Germanic Philology

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Amy C. Mulligan is Assistant Professor of Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame