Ciaran Carson : space, place, writing
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Ciaran Carson : space, place, writing
（Liverpool English texts and studies / general editor, Philip Edwards, 58）
Liverpool University Press, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-226) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
Ciaran Carson is one of the most challenging and inventive of contemporary Irish writers, exhibiting verbal brilliance, formal complexity, and intellectual daring across a remarkably varied body of work. This study considers the full range of his oeuvre, in poetry, prose, and translations, and discusses the major themes to which he returns, including: memory and history, narrative, language and translation, mapping, violence, and power. It argues that the singularity of Carson's writing is to be found in his radical imaginative engagements with ideas of space and place. The city of Belfast, in particular, occupies a crucially important place in his texts, serving as an imaginative focal point around which his many other concerns are constellated. The city, in all its volatile mutability, is an abiding frame of reference and a reservoir of creative impetus for Carson's imagination. Accordingly, the book adopts an interdisciplinary approach that draws upon geography, urbanism, and cultural theory as well as literary criticism. It provides both a stimulating and thorough introduction to Carson's work, and a flexible critical framework for exploring literary representations of space.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Imaginative Geographies: The Politics and Poetics of Space
Chapter 2: Mapping Belfast: Urban Cartographies
Chapter 3: Deviations from the Known Route: Reading, Writing, Walking
Chapter 4: Revised Versions: Place and Memory
Chapter 5: Spatial Stories: Narrative and Representation
Chapter 6: Babel-babble: Language and Translation
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Works
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