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'.
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ISBN
9780192586476
Publisert
2020
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OUP Oxford
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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