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dc.contributor.advisorCrawford, Robert
dc.contributor.advisorBurnside, John
dc.contributor.authorMacKenzie, Garry Ross
dc.coverage.spatial247en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-10T11:37:49Z
dc.date.available2014-12-10T11:37:49Z
dc.date.issued2014-12-01
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/5910
dc.description.abstractThis thesis considers a selection of modern landscape poetry from an ecocritical perspective, arguing that this poetry demonstrates how the term landscape might be re-imagined in relation to contemporary environmental concerns. Each chapter discusses poetic responses to a different kind of landscape: gardens, forests, rivers and islands. Chapter One explores how, in the poetry of Ian Hamilton Finlay, Douglas Dunn, Louise Glück and David Harsent, gardens are culturally constructed landscapes in which ideas of self, society and environment are contemplated; I ask whether gardening provides a positive example of how people might interact with the natural world. My second chapter demonstrates that for Sorley MacLean, W.S. Merwin, Susan Stewart and Kathleen Jamie, forests are sites of memory and sustainable ‘dwelling’, but that deforestation threatens both the ecology and the culture of these landscapes. Chapter Three compares river poems by Ted Hughes and Alice Oswald, considering their differing approaches to river sources, mystical immersion in nature, water pollution and poetic experimentation; I discuss how in W.S. Graham’s poetry the sea provides a complex image of the phenomenal world similar to Oswald’s river. The final chapter examines the extent to which islands in poetry are pastoral landscapes and environmental utopias, looking in particular at poems by Dunn, Robin Robertson, Iain Crichton Smith and Jen Hadfield. I reflect upon the potential for island poetry to embrace narratives of globalisation as well as localism, and situate the work of George Mackay Brown and Robert Alan Jamieson within this context. I engage with a range of ecocritical positions in my readings of these poets and argue that the linguistic creativity, formal inventiveness and self-reflexivity of poetry constitute a distinctive contribution to contemporary understandings of landscape and the environment.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.subjectPoetry -- 21st century -- history and criticismen_US
dc.subjectLandscape in literatureen_US
dc.subjectEcocriticismen_US
dc.subjectScottish poetryen_US
dc.subjectNature in literatureen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmenten_US
dc.subjectEcology in literatureen_US
dc.subjectForests in literatureen_US
dc.subjectGardens in literatureen_US
dc.subjectRivers in literatureen_US
dc.subjectIslands in literatureen_US
dc.subjectPoetry -- 20th century -- history and criticismen_US
dc.subjectEcopoeticsen_US
dc.subjectEnvironment (aesthetics)en_US
dc.subjectPlace (philosophy) in literatureen_US
dc.subject.lccPN1065.M6
dc.subject.lcshPoetry--21st century--History and criticismen_US
dc.subject.lcshPoetry--20th century--History and criticismen_US
dc.subject.lcshLandscapes in literatureen_US
dc.subject.lcshNature in literatureen_US
dc.subject.lcshEcocriticismen_US
dc.titleLandscapes in modern poetry : gardens, forests, rivers, islandsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.rights.embargodate2024-11-04en_US
dc.rights.embargoreasonThesis restricted in accordance with University regulations. Electronic copy restricted until 4th November 2024en_US


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