Ciaran Carson: space, place, writing
Ciaran Carson is one of the most challenging and inventive of contemporary Irish writers, exhibiting verbal brilliance, formal complexity, and intellectual daring across a remarkably varied body of work. This study considers the full range of his oeuvre, in poetry, prose, and translations, and discusses the major themes to which he returns, including: memory and history, narrative, language and translation, mapping, violence, and power. It argues that the singularity of Carson#x92;s writing is …
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- Full title :Ciaran Carson : space, place, writing / Neal Alexander
Summary
Ciaran Carson is one of the most challenging and inventive of contemporary Irish writers, exhibiting verbal brilliance, formal complexity, and intellectual daring across a remarkably varied body of work. This study considers the full range of his oeuvre, in poetry, prose, and translations, and discusses the major themes to which he returns, including: memory and history, narrative, language and translation, mapping, violence, and power. It argues that the singularity of Carson#x92;s writing is to be found in his radical imaginative engagements with ideas of space and place. The city of Belfast, in particular, occupies a crucially important place in his texts, serving as an imaginative focal point around which his many other concerns are constellated. The city, in all its volatile mutability, is an abiding frame of reference and a reservoir of creative impetus for Carson#x92;s imagination. Accordingly, the book adopts an interdisciplinary approach that draws upon geography, urbanism, and cultural theory as well as literary criticism. It provides both a stimulating and thorough introduction to Carson#x92;s work, and a flexible critical framework for exploring literary representations of space.
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- Publication Date:2010
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Liverpool Univ. Press
- Place of Publication:Liverpool
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010
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- Description:Online-Ressource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781846314780, 184631478X
- oclc:ocn844927246
- LC Classification:PR6053.A714
- Dewey Decimal:821.914
Table of Contents
Imaginative geographies : the politics and poetics of space -- Mapping Belfast : urban cartographies -- Deviation from the known route : reading, writing, walking -- Revised versions : place and memory -- Spatial stories : narrative and representation -- Babel-babble : language and translation.
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