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Ciaran Carson: Space, Place, Writing

Ciaran Carson: Space, Place, Writing

Alexander, Neal

Hardcover

Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies, Book 58

Poetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 184631478X
ISBN13: 9781846314780
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Sep 15 2010
Pages: 237
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

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.

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