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Unfolding Irish Landscapes
. Ed(S): Gladwin, Derek; Cusick, Christine
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Description for Unfolding Irish Landscapes
This is the first scholarly edited collection devoted to the work of the Anglo-Irish writer and cartographer Tim Robinson Editor(s): Gladwin, Derek; Cusick, Christine. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784992781
SKU
V9781784992781
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About . Ed(S): Gladwin, Derek; Cusick, Christine
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 -- .
Reviews for Unfolding Irish Landscapes
‘Robinson comes across not only as a brilliant storyteller and interpreter of the landscape but also as intensely human. Thus, the contributors to Unfolding Irish Landscapes mirror Robinson’s own practice: just as he unfolds the Irish landscape, revealing its history to his readers, so, too, do these scholars reveal Robinson to us.’ Leila Crawford, University of Otago, Irish Studies Review, ... Read more