Stepping through origins: nature, home, and landscape in Irish literature

""Stepping through Origins" addresses the place of the aesthetics of nature, landscape, and family in Irish literature, aiming to show how nature is associated with a complex web of Original Sin, colonial conquest, and Oedipal guilt, and how finally some contemporary writers in their...

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Main Author: Holdridge, Jefferson (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Syracuse, New York Syracuse University Press 2021
In:Year: 2021
Edition:First edition
Series/Journal:Irish studies
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Ireland / Literature / English language / Nature (Motif) / Landscape (Motif) / Family (Motif)
Further subjects:B Landscapes in literature
B English literature ; Irish authors
B English literature Irish authors History and criticism
B LITERARY CRITICISM / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh / European
B Nature in literature
B Environment (Aesthetics)
B Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Summary:""Stepping through Origins" addresses the place of the aesthetics of nature, landscape, and family in Irish literature, aiming to show how nature is associated with a complex web of Original Sin, colonial conquest, and Oedipal guilt, and how finally some contemporary writers in their acknowledgement of the ecological movement have moved beyond this construction"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource