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1 online resource (xxi, 254 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-250) and index. |
| 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' |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
"Unfolding Irish Landscapes' offers a comprehensive and sustained cross-disciplinary study of the work of cartographer, landscape writer and visual artist Tim Robinson. Robinson's work continues to garner significant attention not only in Ireland, but also in the United Kingdom, Europe and North America, particularly with the recent celebration of the 25th anniversary of his monumental 'Stones of Aran." |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Robinson, Tim, 1935-2020 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Robinson, Tim, 1935-2020. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Landscapes -- Ireland.
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Landscapes. |
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Ireland. |
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Landscapes in literature.
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Landscapes in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Gladwin, Derek, editor.
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Cusick, Christine, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Unfolding Irish landscapes. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016 9781784992781 178499278X (OCoLC)934408393 |
| ISBN |
9781526104427 (electronic book) |
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1526104423 (electronic book) |
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9781784997144 |
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1784997145 |
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9781784992781 |
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178499278X |
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9780719099472 |
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0719099471 |
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