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Ciaran Carson : space, place, writing / Neal Alexander.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, Neal, author.
- Series:
- Liverpool English texts and studies ; 58.
- Liverpool English texts and studies ; 58
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carson, Ciaran, 1948-2019--Criticism and interpretation.
- Carson, Ciaran.
- Belfast (Northern Ireland)--Intellectual life.
- Belfast (Northern Ireland).
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English.
- 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 Carsons 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 Carsons 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 Carsons work, and a flexible critical framework for exploring literary representations of space.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-226) and indexes.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781846316203
- 1846316200
- OCLC:
- 732956422
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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