Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World

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Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World is written by Szuba Monika Szuba and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1474450636 (ISBN 10) and 9781474450638 (ISBN 13).

Examines the representation of landscape in the poetry of John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, Robin Robertson and Kenneth White Provides an interdisciplinary approach to the representation of landscape in contemporary poetryOpens up the dialogue between ecocriticism and phenomenologyProvides significant original discussion of major Scottish poetsReassesses the work and place of Kenneth White's poetry and thoughtWith an exciting and provocative approach to the reading of landscape and the non-human world in the work of four major Scottish poets, this groundbreaking book merges phenomenology and ecocritical literary criticism. It explores these poets' organic, intimate interrelation between the self and the world, their relationship to the landscape and connection with nature.