| Stepping Through Origins: Nature, Home, and Landscape in Irish Literature Contributor(s): Holdridge, Jefferson (Author) |
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ISBN: 0815637462 ISBN-13: 9780815637462 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $79.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2022 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Nature |
| Dewey: 820.994 |
| LCCN: 2021000134 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.34 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |