A Landscape of Words: Ireland, Britain and the Poetics of Space, 700-1250
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ISBN: 9781526160751
Author | Mulligan, Amy C. (Assistant Professor) |
Pub Date | 01/11/2021 |
Binding | Paperback |
Pages | 264 |
Country | GBR |
Dewey | 820.932 |
Series | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture |
Quick overview 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. -- .