A Landscape of Words: Ireland, Britain and the Poetics of Space, 700-1250

This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 years. It argues that the Irish theorised anew the concept of 'place' and developed a 'spatial turn' that reconfigured how communities in the Irish Sea region thought about writing, place and identity.

Author: Amy C. Mulligan
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 11/30/2021
Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781526160751