This is the first book-length study foregrounding Auden’s sense
of place as a means for enhancing our grasp of this crucial
twentieth-century poet. Proposing that Auden had a remarkable
spatial sensibility, this book concentrates on his treatment of his
homeland England, as well as the North Pennines and Iceland, both
of which served as his ‘good’ places, ‘holy’ grounds and
sources of topophilic sentiment. The readings draw on the
scholarship of humanistic geography, tracing patterns of mental
constructs which emerge from spatial experience. In a scholarly but
engaging way, this book argues that focusing on Auden’s poetics
of place as it emerged and evolved can be instrumental to our
understanding of this influential poet not only in relation to his
epoch but also to the Anglophone poetic tradition. Precisely
because of his stature, these elaborations on Auden’s
preoccupation with places, escapism, borders and local identity
promise to enrich our understanding of the cultural and
intellectual climate of the interwar period, when established
notions of local places and cultures were beginning to be contested
by internationalisation. This study will be of interest to both
academics and students in the field of Anglophone literary studies
while also appealing to those attracted to Auden’s poetry,
interwar culture and the literary representation of space.
General
Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
First published: |
2022 |
Authors: |
Ladislav VÃt
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
158 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-216131-0 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-03-216131-0 |
Barcode: |
9781032161310 |
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