Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts

Zusatztext 'This is an engaging and tightly conceived collection of essays which will open up new ground and forge fresh connections in the best sense of interdisciplinary scholarship.' - Aaron Kelly! University of Edinburgh! UK Informationen zum Autor HÉLÈNE ALFAROLecturer at the Université Paris Est- Créteil Val de Marne, France LAURY-NURIA ANDRÉPostgraduate student in Greek, Latin and the classical worldFIONN BENNETTSenior lecturer at the University of Reims, FranceGERRY CAHILLArchitect, Fellow of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland and Lecturer at the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Civil Engineering, University College Dublin, IrelandPHILIPPE CAUVET Senior lecturer at the Université of Poitiers, FranceMARIE-CLAIRE CONSIDÈRE-CHARONProfessor Emeritus at the University of Franche-Comté, France CATHERINE CROCHETChoreographer and Performing ArtistNESSA CRONINLecturer in Irish Studies at the Centre for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway, IrelandEMILE-JEAN DUMAYSpecialist of Drama Studies and TranslatorCHRISTIAN GIRIATArtistic Manager of the Théâtre Mobile in Lyons, FranceCATHERINE GROUTProfessor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et de Paysage in Lille, France DENIS HAMONFormer Postgraduate student at University College Dublin, IrelandJOANNA KRUCZKOWSKALecturer at the University of Lodz, PolandJAMES MCCABEGraduate from the University of Maynooth, IrelandCATHAL MCCALLSenior Lecturer in European Studies, Queen's University, BelfastFIONA MCCANN Lecturer at the Université de Lille 3, FranceSYLVIE MIKOWSKIProfessor of Irish Studies at the University of Reims-Champagne-Ardenne, FrancePAULA MURPHYLecturer in Art History atUCD, IrelandBRENDAN O'SULLIVANDirector of the Programme in Planning and Sustainable Development at UCC and Visiting Academic at Université de Bretagne Occidentale at Brest, FranceKAREN RAYPhD researcher in the Programme in Planning and Sustainable Development at University College Cork, IrelandSTEPHANIE SCHWERTERTeacher ofcomparative literature at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, FranceYVONNE SCOTTDirector of TRIARC, the Irish Art Research Centre in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland MICHAEL STARRETTChief Executive of the Heritage Council of IrelandMATHEW STAUNTONAssociate Fellow of the The Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media Research, IrelandJACKIE WHELAN PhD candidate under the Walsh Fellowship Scheme with Teagasc and UCD, Ireland Klappentext Looking at representations of the Irish landscape in contemporary literature and the arts, this volume discusses the economic, political and environmental issues associated with it, questioning the myths behind Ireland's landscape, from the first Greek descriptions to present day post Celtic-Tiger architecture. Zusammenfassung Looking at representations of the Irish landscape in contemporary literature and the arts! this volume discusses the economic! political and environmental issues associated with it! questioning the myths behind Ireland's landscape! from the first Greek descriptions to present day post Celtic-Tiger architecture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Maps List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction; M.Mianowski PART I: BIRTH OF THE IRISH LANDSCAPE AND THE MYTH OF LOSS From Ancient Geographers to the Journey of the Argonauts: Ierne Island (Ireland), a Landscape Island Between Two Worlds; L.André Landscape, Senchas and the Medieval Irish Mind; D.Hamon Translating the Facts of Landscape into the Facts of Language: Ethnoecological Ruminations on Glossopoiesis in Early Ireland; F.Bennett Language and Landscapes of Ireland; J.McCabe PART II: CONTEMPORARY LITERARY MYTHS Derek Mahon's Seascapes Mediated through Greece: Antiquity in Modernity, Nature in Abstraction; J.Kruczkowska Fictionalising Division: The Urban Landscapes of Belfast, Beiru...

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Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Maps List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction; M.Mianowski PART I: BIRTH OF THE IRISH LANDSCAPE AND THE MYTH OF LOSS From Ancient Geographers to the Journey of the Argonauts: Ierne Island (Ireland), a Landscape Island Between Two Worlds; L.André Landscape, Senchas and the Medieval Irish Mind; D.Hamon Translating the Facts of Landscape into the Facts of Language: Ethnoecological Ruminations on Glossopoiesis in Early Ireland; F.Bennett Language and Landscapes of Ireland; J.McCabe PART II: CONTEMPORARY LITERARY MYTHS Derek Mahon's Seascapes Mediated through Greece: Antiquity in Modernity, Nature in Abstraction; J.Kruczkowska Fictionalising Division: The Urban Landscapes of Belfast, Beirut and Berli; S.Schwerter 'The post-past city': Apocalyptic Cityscapes and Cultural Stagnation in the Fiction of Sean O'Reilly; F.McCann Lived and Learned Landscapes: Literary Geographies and the Irish Topographical Tradition; N.Cronin Landscapes in Movement: Cosmopolitanism and the Poetics of Space in Colum McCann's Fiction; S.Mikowski PART III: BORDERSCAPING Monumental Landscapes: Riding the Boundaries of an Independent Ireland with the Early Sinn Féin Movement; M.Staunton Irish Nationalism and the Natural Insular Landscape of Ireland Before Partition: Insularity Versus the Wishes of the Inhabitants; P.Cauvet The Irish Border as a Cultural Landscape; C.McCall Rural Development in the Border Areas: From 'borderscaping' to Cross-border Planning; M.C.Considère-Charon PART IV: LOCAL HERITAGE AND GLOBAL SPEED The Altered Edge. The Impact of the Construction Boom on the Landscape of the Urban Periphery; G.Cahill Our landscape, Our Heritage - Building Toward a New Legislative Approach to Empower Local Communities; M.Starrett Standardizing Terminology for Landscape Categorisation - an Irish Agri-environment Perspective; J.Whelan et al The Metropolitan Cork Green Belt: Synergies and Tensions Between Strategic and Local Understandings ofLandscape Value; B.O'Sullivan & K.Ray PART V: CONTEMPORARY VISIONS AND CREATIONS: THE CHALLENGE OF ART The Renaissance of the Forest in Contemporary Art in Ireland; Y.Scott The Geography of the Place in Doherty's Work; C.Grout Sculpture in the Irish Landscape; P.Murphy Transforming the City: The Stakes of Cultural and Artistic Landscaping in Post Conflict Belfast; H.Alfaro Ballymun in Dermot Bolger's Plays: Beyond the Urban Landscape; E.Dumay Belfast: An Eyeless City; C.Crochet & C.Giriat Index

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'This is an engaging and tightly conceived collection of essays which will open up new ground and forge fresh connections in the best sense of interdisciplinary scholarship.'
- Aaron Kelly, University of Edinburgh, UK

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• Authors: Marie Mianowski, MIANOWSKI MARIE
• Assisted by: Mianowski (Editor), M Mianowski (Editor), M. Mianowski (Editor), Marie Mianowski (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.12.2011
• EAN: 9780230319394
• ISBN: 978-0-230-31939-4
• No. of pages: 329
• Subjects: Fiction; Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; B, Literature, Architecture, Fiction & related items, Fine Arts, Fiction, Arts, Fine Art, Architecture, general, Literature: history & criticism, Literature, general, European Literature, Biography, Literature & Literary studies, Fine arts: art forms, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection