Unfolding Irish landscapes : Tim Robinson, culture and environment /: Tim Robinson, culture and environment. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Derek Gladwin and Christine Cusick.
• Editors: Gladwin, Derek; Cusick, Christine
• Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Foreword: Tim Robinson; Map of Aran Islands and neighbouring coasts; Introduction; Setting foot on the west of Ireland; The 'storings and sortings' of cartography and topographical writing; Surveying critical and creative approaches; Notes; I Explorations in cartography and geography; 1 Genius loci; Introduction; Exploring Robinson's maps; The storied landscape; Reflections on slow landscapes; Notes; 2 Catchments; Notes; 3 'The fineness of things' Drawing, mapping, writing the landscapeDeep mapping: 'a conversation not a statement'; 'A Career in Art' (1964-69); Transitions I (1969-71): Moonfield; Transitions II (1971-72): To the Centre; Departure/arrival: Oileáin Árann, 1972; Acknowledgements; Notes; 4 Documentary map-making and film-making in Pat Collins's Tim Robinson: Connemara; Documenting through map-making and film-making; The map of place and the map-maker; Map and the map-maker; Map and mapped; Notes; II Topographic writing and narrative; 5 'And now intellect, discovering its own effects'; Introduction Narrative scholarship as approachListening to the sea; Hesitation and meaning; The next step; Notes; 6 Not knowing as aesthetic imperative in Tim Robinson's Stones of Aran; Notes; 7 Thirteen ways of looking at a landscape: ; Notes; 8 Tim Robinson and Chris Arthur; A caveat; Place: grounding the quotidian; Space: uncertainty and coming to knowledge; Conclusions and possibilities; Notes; III Place and the Irish cultural imagination; 9 'But his study is out of doors'; Notes; 10 Maps, movements and migrants; Notes; 11 'About nothing, about everything'; Notes 12 'Another half-humanized boulder lying on unprofitable ground'?Notes; 13 'An ear to the earth'; Notes; 14 Essayist of place; Notes; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxi, 254 pages ), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 910.9/2; 828/.91409; British & Irish History; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Landscapes; Landscapes in literature; Travel Writing; TRAVEL -- Europe -- Ireland; Landscapes -- Ireland; Landscapes in literature; Ireland; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526104427; 1526104423; 9781784997144; 1784997145
• Related ISBNs: 9781784992781; 178499278X; 9780719099472; 0719099471
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-250) and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.