Haunted Spaces in Twenty-First Century British Nature Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Haunted Spaces in Twenty-First Century British Nature Writing write by Anneke Lubkowitz. This book was released on 2020-06-08. Haunted Spaces in Twenty-First Century British Nature Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study investigates the figure of haunting in the New Nature Writing. It begins with a historical survey of nature writing and traces how it came to represent an ideal of ‘natural’ space as empty of human history and social conflict. Building on a theoretical framework which combines insights from ecocriticism and spatial theory, the author explores the spatial dimensions of haunting and ‘hauntology’ and shows how 21st-century writers draw on a Gothic repertoire of seemingly supernatural occurrences and spectral imagery to portray ‘natural’ space as disturbed, uncanny and socially contested. Iain Sinclair and Robert Macfarlane are revealed to apply psychogeography’s interest in ‘hidden histories’ and haunted places to spaces associated with ‘wilderness’ and ‘the countryside’. Kathleen Jamie’s allusions to the Gothic are put in relation to her feminist re-writing of ‘the outdoors’, and John Burnside’s use of haunting is shown to dismantle fictions of ‘the far north’. This book provides not only a discussion of a wide range of factual and fictional narratives of the present but also an analysis of the intertextual dialogue with the Romantic tradition which enfolds in these texts.
Haunted Landscapes
Haunted Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Haunted Landscapes write by Ruth Heholt. This book was released on 2016-11-17. Haunted Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Haunted Landscapes offers a fresh and innovative approach to contemporary debates about landscape and the supernatural. Landscapes are often uncanny spaces embroiled in the past; associated with absence, memory and nostalgia. Yet experiences of haunting must in some way always belong to the present: they must be felt. This collection of essays opens up new and compelling areas of debate around the concepts of haunting, affect and landscape. Landscape studies, supernatural studies, haunting and memory are all rapidly growing fields of enquiry and this book synthesises ideas from several critical approaches – spectral, affective and spatial – to provide a new route into these subjects. Examining urban and rural landscapes, haunted domestic spaces, landscapes of trauma, and borderlands, this collection of essays is designed to cross disciplines and combine seemingly disparate academic approaches under the coherent locus of landscape and haunting. Presenting a timely intervention in some of the most pressing scholarly debates of our time, Haunted Landscapes offers an attractive array of essays that cover topics from Victorian times to the present.
21st-Century Yokel
21st-Century Yokel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 21st-Century Yokel write by Tom Cox. This book was released on 2017-11-16. 21st-Century Yokel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Glorious – funny and wry and wise, and utterly its own lawmaker' Robert Macfarlane 'A rich, strange, oddly glorious brew' Guardian Longlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 2018 21st-Century Yokel is not quite nature writing, not quite a family memoir, not quite a book about walking, not quite a collection of humorous essays, but a bit of all five. Thick with owls and badgers, oak trees and wood piles, scarecrows and ghosts, and Tom Cox's loud and excitable dad, this book is full of the folklore of several counties – the ancient kind and the everyday variety – as well as wild places, mystical spots and curious objects. Emerging from this focus on the detail are themes that are broader and bigger and more important than ever. Tom's writing treads a new path, one that has a lot in common with a rambling country walk; it's bewitched by fresh air and big skies, intrepid in minor ways, haunted by weather and old stories and the spooky edges of the outdoors, restless and prone to a few detours, but it always reaches its destination in the end.
Modern British Nature Writing, 1789–2020
Modern British Nature Writing, 1789–2020 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern British Nature Writing, 1789–2020 write by Will Abberley. This book was released on 2022-03-17. Modern British Nature Writing, 1789–2020 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This first full-length study of modern British nature writing is timely and invaluable for literary scholarship in the environmental crisis.
Eight Ghosts
Eight Ghosts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eight Ghosts write by Sarah Perry. This book was released on 2017-09-28. Eight Ghosts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rooted in place, slipping between worlds - a rich collection of unnerving ghosts and sinister histories. 'An impressive line-up of established and emerging names.' The Sunday Times 'These eerie, unsettling stories are guaranteed to send shivers down your spine.' Daily Express Eight authors were given the freedom of their chosen English Heritage site, from medieval castles to a Cold War nuclear bunker. Immersed in the past and chilled by rumours of hauntings, they channelled their darker imaginings into a series of extraordinary new ghost stories. 'Subtly evocative of human relations loss, grief, or the fear of loneliness.' TLS 'A satisfying and spooky read.' Sun Also includes a gazetteer of English Heritage properties which are said to be haunted.
