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Informationen zum Autor Derek Gladwin is an Instructor at the University of British Columbia Christine Cusick is an Associate Professor of English at Seton Hill University Klappentext Unfolding Irish landscapes offers a comprehensive and sustained cross-disciplinary study of the work of cartographer, landscape writer and visual artist Tim Robinson. Robinson's work continues to garner significant attention not only in Ireland, but also in the United Kingdom, Europe and North America, particularly with the recent celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his monumental Stones of Aran: pilgrimage. In The Guardian, Robert Macfarlane has described Robinson's work in Ireland as 'one of the most sustained, intensive and imaginative studies of a landscape that has ever been carried out'. It is difficult to separate Robinson the figure from his work and the places he surveys in Ireland - they are intertextual and interconnected. This volume explores some of these characteristics for both general and expert readers alike. The multi-genre essays and visual texts of this collection explore Robinson's writing, map-making and art. The individual studies demonstrate disciplinary expertise; as parts of a cohesive project they form a collective overview of the imaginative sensibility and artistic dexterity of Robinson's cultural and geographical achievements in Ireland. By navigating Robinson's method of ambulation through his prose and visual creations this book examines topics ranging from the politics of cartography and map-making as visual art forms to the cultural and environmental dimensions of writing about landscapes.The collection draws from the expertise of international scholars in fields of Irish studies, geography, environmental studies, literature and visual culture, with contributors including Patrick Duffy, John Elder, Moya Cannon, Gerry Smyth and Moynagh Sullivan. Unfolding Irish landscapes will be an essential companion not only for students and lecturers in Irish studies and environmental humanities but also for the general reader seeking a deeper understanding of Ireland's geography and culture. Zusammenfassung This is the first scholarly edited collection devoted to the work of the Anglo-Irish writer and cartographer Tim Robinson -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword - Robert MacfarlaneIntroduction: Ireland's 'ABC of earth wonders' - Christine Cusick and Derek GladwinPart 1: Explorations in cartography and geography1. Genius loci: the geographical imagination of Tim Robinson - Patrick Duffy2. Catchments - John Elder3. 'The fineness of things': the deep mapping projects of Tim Robinson's art and writings, 1969-1972 - Nessa Cronin4. Documentary map-making and film-making in Pat Collins' Tim Robinson: Connemara - Derek GladwinPart 2: Topographic writing and narrative5. 'And now intellect, discovering its own effects': Tim Robinson as narrative scholar - Christine Cusick6. Not-knowing as aesthetic imperative in Tim Robinson's Stones of Aran - Kelly Sullivan7. Thirteen ways of looking at a landscape: the poetic in the work of Tim Robinson - Moya Cannon8. Tim Robinson and Chris Arthur: in defence of the Irish essay - Karen BabinePart 3: Place and the Irish cultural imagination9. 'But his study is out of doors': Tim Robinson's place in Irish studies - Eamonn Wall10. Maps, movements, and migrants: reading Tim Robinson though Gluaiseacht Chearta Sibhialta na Gaeltachta - Jerry White11. 'About nothing, about everything': listening in / to Tim Robinson - Gerry Smyth12. 'another half-humanized boulder lying on unprofitable ground': the visual art of Tim Robinson/Timothy Drever - Catherine Marshall13. 'An ear to the earth': matrixial gazing in Tim Robinson's walk-art-text practice - Moynagh Sullivan14. Essayist of place: postcolonialism and ecology in the work of Tim Robinson - Eóin FlanneryEpilogue: On the rocks road - Andrew McNeillieBibliography In...
