Unfolding Irish landscapes : Tim Robinson, culture and environment / edited by Derek Gladwin and Christine Cusick.
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TextPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.Description: xxi, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780719099472
- 0719099471
- 911.415 GLA
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An unprecedented compilation of critical and creative essays and visual texts from leading international scholars, Unfolding Irish landscapes presents cross-disciplinary studies of the prose, cartography, visual art and cultural legacy of the award-winning work of cartographer and writer Tim Robinson. This book explores the process in which Robinson has addressed the historical and geographical tensions that suffuse the landscapes of Ireland. Robinson's distinctive methods of map-making and topographical writing capture the geographical and cultural consciousness of not only Ireland, but also of the entire North Atlantic archipelago. Through both topographic prose and cartography Robinson undertakes one of the greatest explorations of the Irish landscape by a single person in recent history, paralleling, if not surpassing, Robert Lloyd Praeger's extensive catalogue of writings and natural histories of western Ireland.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-250) and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of figures (p. vii)
- List of contributors (p. x)
- Acknowledgements (p. xiv)
- Foreword (p. xvi)
- Map of Aran Islands and neighbouring coasts xxii
- Introduction: Ireland's 'ABC of earth wonders' (p. 1)
- I Explorations in cartography and geography (p. 19)
- 1 Genius loci: the geographical imagination of Tim Robinson (p. 21)
- 2 Catchments (p. 41)
- 3 'The fineness of things': the deep mapping projects of Tim Robinson's art and writings, 1969-72 (p. 53)
- 4 Documentary map-making and film-making in Pat Collins's Tim Robinson: Connemara (p. 73)
- II Topographic writing and narrative (p. 87)
- 5 'And now intellect, discovering its own effects': Tim Robinson as narrative scholar (p. 89)
- 6 Not knowing as aesthetic imperative in Tim Robinson's Statics of Aran (p. 103)
- 7 Thirteen ways of looking at a landscape; the poetic in the work of Tim Robinson (p. 119)
- 8 Tim Robinson and Chris Arthur: in defence of the Irish essay (p. 127)
- III Place and the Irish cultural imagination (p. 145)
- 9 'But his study is out of doors': Tim Robinson's place in Irish Studies (p. 147)
- 10 Maps, movements and migrants: reading Tim Robinson through Gluaiseacht Chearta Sibhialta na Gaeltachta (p. 158)
- 11 'About nothing, about everything': listening in/to Tim Robinson (p. 173)
- 12 'Another half-humanized boulder lying on unprofitable ground'?: the visual art of Tim Robin son/Timothy Drever (p. 190)
- 13 'An ear to the earth': matrixial gazing in Tim Robinson's walk-art-text practice (p. 202)
- 14 Essayist of place: postcolonialism and ecology in the work of Tim Robinson (p. 218)
- Epilogue: On the rocks road (p. 237)
- Bibliography (p. 241)
- Index (p. 251)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Derek Gladwin is SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia
Christine Cusick is an Associate Professor of English at Seton Hill University