A Landscape of Words: Ireland, Britain and the Poetics of Space, 7001250
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A Landscape of Words: Ireland, Britain and the Poetics of Space, 7001250
By (Author) Amy C. Mulligan
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
14th May 2019
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
820.932
Winner of Winner of the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book 2019
Physical Properties
Hardback
264
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
Description
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. -- .
Reviews
'Through its engagement with interdisciplinary discussions about space and identity as well
as its attention to the needs of nonspecialists, A landscape of words should find a broad reader-
ship among scholars and students of medieval literature.'
Aisling Byrne, Speculum
Author Bio
Amy C. Mulligan is Associate Professor of Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame
