Within the current climate of both literary and environmental
studies "Out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts" is
an unprecedented integration of Irish Studies and Ecocriticism that
is both timely and necessary. The essays offer ecocritical readings
of Irish literary and cultural texts of various genres, including
fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama and the visual image.
Long before there was a theoretical movement that gave a name to
and vocabulary for literary readings of nature, scholars of Irish
literature have understood the importance of the natural world to
an Irish cultural sensibility. An emphasis on place not only
pervades Irish writing of the twentieth century but also is in fact
rooted in ancient traditions of Celtic mythology and place-lore.
While critical assessments of Irish place writing are numerous, few
of them address such representations of the natural world as
politically and culturally informed and scripted texts. Even fewer
of them address the ecological implications embedded in these ways
of knowing place. This project explores the natural world as a
record of and participant in the experiences of a vibrant and
changing Ireland.
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