Stepping through Origins: Nature, Home, and Landscape in Irish Literature (Irish Studies)

Review\nHoldridge makes fascinating and sometimes surprising connections that thoughtfully invite the reader to seriously interrogate the imaginative and historical consequences of the nature/culture divide. ― Christine Cusick, Seton Hill University\nThis is an ambitious and wide-ranging study on an important nexus of concerns prominent in Irish writing for more than 200 years. . . . Given current critical interest in spatial concerns in Irish literature and culture, this work is well positioned to make a significant contribution to the field. ― Lucy Collins, University College Dublin\nThis theoretically nuanced study is a wide-ranging substantial contribution to the developing field of Irish ecocriticism. ― Terence Brown, Trinity College Dublin\nSince the eighteenth century, landscape has played complex psychological and political roles in the narrative of Irishness, entailing questions of memory, family, home, exile, and forgiveness. In Stepping through Origins, Holdridge explores the interplay of these concepts in literature. For Irish writers from Swift to Heaney, the Irish landscape has remained not only a reflection of Irish troubles but, much like aesthetic experience, a space in which the bitterness of family or national life can be understood, if not entirely overcome. Through deft analysis of works by leading Irish writers including Lady Morgan, Yeats, Joyce, Louis MacNeice, and Elizabeth Bowen, Holdridge expands and enriches our understanding of how landscape has served as a palimpsest for both family and country, connecting personal with collective memory, localized places with their regions, and individual with national identity.\nBook Description\nExplores the aesthetics of nature, landscape, and family, demonstrating how nature is associated with a complex web of Original Sin, colonial conquest, and Oedipal guilt.

Literature & Fiction

Holdridge, Jefferson

British & Irish

Syracuse University Press

Since the eighteenth century, landscape has played complex psychological and political roles in the narrative of Irishness, entailing questions of memory, family, home, exile, and forgiveness. In Stepping through Origins, Holdridge explores the interplay of these concepts in literature. For Irish writers from Swift to Heaney, the Irish landscape has remained not only a reflection of Irish troubles but, much like aesthetic experience, a space in which the bitterness of family or national life can be understood, if not entirely overcome. Through deft analysis of works by leading Irish writers including Lady Morgan, Yeats, Joyce, Louis MacNeice, and Elizabeth Bowen, Holdridge expands and enriches our understanding of how landscape has served as a palimpsest for both family and country, connecting personal with collective memory, localized places with their regions, and individual with national identity.

The Wells of Venice contains sequences, blank verse, and lyrics that meditate upon visual and literary Venetian art, as well as the myths, history, religion, and politics that shaped the culture of this extraordinary human achievement. Founded on fear of invasion and hope for refuge, Venice becomes a warning symbol of imperial arrogance and ambition.&nbsp;The waters of the lagoon and the fragility of the city mirror the relevance of the ephemeral in themes such as departure from and return to home. On the one hand, the vanishings that take place are interior and exterior, literal and figurative, with the differences between often blurred, while on the other, the religious art of this city remains a transcendent expression of its history, one that at its best always remembers Unde Origo Inde Salus, "Salvation is in the Origin."

The Wells of Venice

Religion & Spirituality

Resource Publications (CA)

The Wells of Venice: Poems

Resource Publications

A study of Yeats's aesthetics, in which the writing is profoundly engaged with the inner world of Yeats's poetry. The author's familiarity with the internal stresses of Yeats's vision is grounded in serious and painstaking work in philosophy and literary theory from Kant to Kristeva. The significance and human importance of Yeats's poetry and thought are linked to contemporary issues of morality, politics and sexuality.

Those Mingled Seas: The Poetry of W.B. Yeats, the Beautiful and the Sublime

Univ College Dublin Pr

This book is not merely a critical book on Yeats but is the work of a fellow poet. . . An intimate and aesthetic understanding of Yeats's poetic quest."" - Irish Literary Supplement

Those Mingled Seas: The Poetry of W.B.Yeats, the Beautiful and the Sublime: The Poetry of W.B.Yeats, the Beautiful and the Sublime

History & Criticism

Univ College Dubli

This book introduces the general reader to some of the main critical discussions surrounding Muldoon's work. The Poetry of Paul Muldoon unearths difficult questions of form with a metaphysical significance that is suitable to our times. "Makes its own su

The Poetry of Paul Muldoon

The Liffey Press

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Stepping through Origins: Nature, Home, and Landscape in Irish Literature (Irish Studies)

Stepping through Origins: Nature, Home, and Landscape in Irish Literature (Irish Studies)

The Wells of Venice

The Wells of Venice: Poems

Those Mingled Seas: The Poetry of W.B. Yeats, the Beautiful and the Sublime

Those Mingled Seas: The Poetry of W.B.Yeats, the Beautiful and the Sublime: The Poetry of W.B.Yeats, the Beautiful and the Sublime

The Poetry of Paul Muldoon