Ciaran Carson - Space, Place, Writing

Informationen zum Autor Dr Neal Alexander lectures in English at the University of Nottingham. He is the co-editor (with Shane Murphy and Anne Oakman) of 'To the Other Shore: Cross-currents in Irish and Scottish Studies' (Queen's University Belfast, 2004). Klappentext 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. With his birthplace and hometown of Belfast as a recurrent--and often gritty--frame of reference! Carson engages the themes of history! geography! violence! and power. In this in-depth study! Neal Alexander employs urbanism! cultural theory! and literary criticism to decipher""the ways in which Carson imaginatively navigates the ideas of space and place. A truly groundbreaking book and a new critical framework for exploring literary representations of space! this is the first study to consider the entire Carson canon! including poetry! prose! and translation. Zusammenfassung An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Neal Alexander, Neal (Department of English & Creative Writing Alexander
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.01.2011, delayed
• EAN: 9781846314780
• ISBN: 978-1-84631-478-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies; Liverpool English Texts and St; Liverpool English Texts and Studies; Liverpool English Texts and St
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies