E-raamat: Ireland, Literature, and the Coast: Seatangled

In sum, this new study is excellently written, capacious in scope, thoroughly researched, and original in approach. It leaves some open strands of argument--from the role of Ireland in the racial dynamics of maritime empire to the potential linkages between Scottish and Irish writing in a devolved archipelago--that others will pick up, tracing their analysis back to Allen's watershed effort. All of which will be part of the lasting impact on Irish, ecocritical, modernist, and contemporary literary studies that Ireland, Literature and the Coast is likely to have. * Nels Pearson, Twentieth Century Literature * The first major environmentally conscious monograph to appear in Irish Studies... Nicholas Allen's Ireland, Literature and the Coast explores the maritime and watery dimensions of the country... Allen's study will be influential for years to come. * John Kerrigan, LRB * Brimming with ideas, names and points of reference, Seatangled is an agenda-setting book that will help return the study of modern Irish writing to the coast. * Claire Connolly, Irish Times * ...this crucial volume will energize and long sustain these and much wider conversations about humanity, culture, and our relationship to the nature and environment of the terraqueous globe. * Colin Dewey, Sea History * Allen fuses Irish literature and his own thalassography into an interdependent essence. Quite an accomplishment. * Dan Maccarthy, Irish Examiner * I began this book during a summer when European rivers ran dry;...Seatangled reflects the transitional period in which we live, moving from an analysis of water as symbol and metaphor to an exploration of water with powerful agency. * Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Kathryn Kirkpatrick *