Nature and Space in Contemporary Scottish Writing and Art

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This book examines how contemporary Scottish writers and artists revisit and reclaim nature in the political and aesthetic context of devolved Scotland. Camille Manfredi investigates the interaction of landscape aesthetics and strategies of spatial representation in Scotland’s twenty-first-century literature and arts, focusing on the apparatuses designed by nature writers, poets, performers, walking artists and visual artists to physically and intellectually engage with the land and re-present it to themselves and to the world. Through a comprehensive analysis of a variety of site-specific artistic practices, artworks and publications, this book investigates the works of Scotland-based artists including Linda Cracknell, Kathleen Jamie, Thomas A. Clark, Gerry Loose, John Burnside, Alec Finlay, Hamish Fulton, Hanna Tuulikki and Roseanne Watt, with a view to exploring the ongoing re-invention of a territory-bound identity that dwells on an inclusive sense of place, as well as on a complex renegotiation with the time and space of Scotland. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii ‘Our Land’: An Introduction (Camille Manfredi)....Pages 1-17 Keeping the Paths Beaten: Robert Macfarlane, Linda Cracknell and Stuart McAdam’s Hodological Scotland (Camille Manfredi)....Pages 19-46 Land Made by Walking: Andrew Greig, Thomas A. Clark, Hamish Fulton, or, the Art of Passing Through (Camille Manfredi)....Pages 47-73 Spacings: Gerry Loose and Kathleen Jamie’s Interspecies Relationalities (Camille Manfredi)....Pages 75-97 Into the Fold: Kathleen Jamie’s and John Burnside’s Oikopoetics (Camille Manfredi)....Pages 99-120 Things of Space: Andy Goldsworthy’s Sheepfolds and Alec Finlay’s Company of Mountains, or, Materialising as Re-siting (Camille Manfredi)....Pages 121-148 Soundmarks and Ecotones: Ensounding Scotland (Camille Manfredi)....Pages 149-166 Filming Space: Transenunciation as Re-production. Susan Kemp’s Nort Atlantik Drift: A Portrait of Robert Alan Jamieson and Roseanne Watt’s Quoys (Camille Manfredi)....Pages 167-184 The Hyperzone: Is There a Space on This Screen? (Camille Manfredi)....Pages 185-199 Conclusion (Camille Manfredi)....Pages 201-211 Back Matter ....Pages 213-217