The Literature of Region and Nation
Published on 25. November 1988
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-333-43774-2 (ISBN)
Description
This is a collection of essays on the common theme of the consciousness of regional and national identity, historically rooted or newly emergent, resisting the pressures of traditionally dominant metropolitan centres. The contributors to this volume include the Irish poet Seamus Heaney, Iain Crichton Smith (who writes in both Gaelic and English), and academics from Britain, North America and continental countries. Their subjects are equally varied - Wordsworth, Wallace Stevens, the distinctively Australian poetry of Les Murray and the "west coast" culture of recent British Columbian writers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
460 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-43774-2 (9780333437742)
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Ronald P. Draper
The Literature of Region and Nation
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01/1989
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Content
The regional forecast, S.Heaney; Wordsworth, regional or provincial? The epistolary context, J.H.Alexander; stations and shadows - from Skiddaw to Duddon, J.R.Watson; regional and provincial in Victorian literature, R.Gilmour; unreal estate - reflections on Wessex and Yoknapatawpha, M.Millgate; Philip Larkin - provincial poet, R.P.Draper; region and nation - R.S.Thomas and Dylan Thomas, B.Hardy; the view from the north - region and nation in "The Silver Darlings" and "A Scots Quair", T.Crawford; Scoticisms and cultural conflict, D.Hewitt; the double man, I.Crichton Smith; England - a country of the mind, G.Watson; "The most wonderful foreign land I have ever been in" - Kipling's England, N.Page; Williams and Stevens - the quest for a native American modernism, W.Litz; the local is the universal - William Carlos Williams and Neil Gunn, B.Lawson - Peebles; Les Murray and the poetry of Australia, B.Clunies Ross; the British Columbian history of place, M.S.Madoff; "Walloon Literature" - some questions of regionalism in a bi-lingual culture, P.Mosley; "Letzebuergesch" - a dialect between regional tradition and national vocation, J.P.Campill; literature in "Letzebuergesch" in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, S.Simon. Appendix: International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation, University of Aberdeen, 19-23 August 1986 - list of papers.