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Landscape and subjectivity in the work of Patrick Keiller, W.G. Sebald, and Iain Sinclair

Title
Landscape and subjectivity in the work of Patrick Keiller, W.G. Sebald, and Iain Sinclair / David Anderson.
Author
Anderson, David
Publication
  • Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • ©2020

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Description
xvii, 293 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm
Summary
This book situates the film-maker Patrick Keiller alongside the writers W.G. Sebald and Iain Sinclair as the three leading voices in 'English psychogeography', offering new insights to key works including London, The Rings of Saturn, and Lights Out for the Territory. Excavating social and political contexts while also providing plentiful close analysis, it examines the cultivation of a distinctive 'affective' mode or sensibility especially attuned to the cultural anxieties of the twentieth century's closing decades. Landscape and Subjectivity explores motifs including essayism, the reconciliation of creativity with market forces, and the foregrounding of an often agonised or melancholic. It asks whether the work can, collectively, be seen to constitute a 'critical theory of contemporary space' and suggests that Keiller, Sebald, and Sinclair's contributions represent a highly significant moment in English culture's engagement with landscape, environment, and itself. The book's analyses are fuelled by archival and topographical research and are responsive to various interdisciplinary contexts, including the tradition of the 'English Journey', the set of ideas associated with the 'spatial turn', critical theory, the so-called 'heritage debate', and more recent theorisation of the 'anthropocene'.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-286) and index.
Call Number
JFE 21-667
ISBN
  • 019884719X
  • 9780198847199
OCLC
1144092438
Author
Anderson, David, author.
Title
Landscape and subjectivity in the work of Patrick Keiller, W.G. Sebald, and Iain Sinclair / David Anderson.
Publisher
Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Copyright Date
©2020
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-286) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 21-667
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