The Collected Works of Kenneth White, Volume 4
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-3138-2 (ISBN)
Kenneth White (1936–2023) established his reputation as a poet, essayist and travel writer in France in the 1970s and 80s, having left Britain in 1970. He became Professor of Twentieth-Century Poetics at the Sorbonne in 1983 and founded the International Institute of Geopoetics in Paris in 1989. The three books in this volume are what he came to describe as ‘waybooks’, accounts of travels designed to confront the reader with the condition of the modern world and, through their invocation of the notion of geopoetics, to reveal what might lie beyond its familiar limit.
Kenneth White was a Scottish poet, academic and writer. He published numerous works of poetry and prose, with volumes and essays in French as well as English. His work has also been translated into several languages. He was the recipient of many awards and honours, in Europe and Scotland, including the Grand Prix du Rayonnement Français by the Académie française for his work as a whole (1985), the Édouard Glissant prize from the University of Paris VIII for his ‘openness to the cultures of the world’ (2004) and Prix de poésie Alain Bosquet for Les Archives du Littoral, a bilingual poetry collection (2011). White held honorary doctorates from the University of Glasgow, the University of Edinburgh and the Open University and was an honorary member of the Royal Scottish Academy. In 1989 he founded the International Institute of Geopoetics to promote further research into the cross-cultural, trans-disciplinary field of study which he had been developing during the previous decade. It has since produced six Cahiers de Géopoétique (journals) in French, publishing a range of work on geopoetics from throughout the world. Geopoetics Centres have since been set up in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Serbia, Quebec, New Caledonia and France. His publications in English include, Ideas of Order at Cape Wrath (2013), The Wanderer and his Charts (2004), Open World: The Collected Poems 1960-2000 (2003) and House of Tides (2000). He lived on the north coast of Brittany. Cairns Craig is Professor Emeritus in Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. His most recent books are The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture, Independence (2018) and Muriel Spark, Existentialism and the Art of Death (2019), both published by Edinburgh University Press. He was the general editor of the four volume History of Scottish Literature published by Aberdeen University Press in 1987, and was involved in editing the magazines Cencrastus and Radical Scotland in the 1980s. Other books on Scottish subjects include The Modern Scottish Novel (1999) and Intending Scotland (2009).
A Note on the Texts
THE BLUE ROAD
Preface
1. The Moon in Montreal
2. Quebec City Flash
3. Route 175 North
4. Chicoutimi, Couscous and Old White Whisky
5. The Walk to Pointe Bleue
6. Eskimo Joe
7. White Night
8. The Wind at Seven Islands
9. On the Coast
10. Jean-Baptiste
11. The Big Dance at Mingan
12. The End of the Road
13. The Train to Schefferville
14. The Shaman and the Lighthouse-keeper
15. Calling Carcajou
16. At Indian House Lake
17. The Goose Bay Companions
18. Arctic Chronicles
19. The Naked Earth
20. Ungava
21. Labrador, or the Waking Dream
GUIDO’S MAP
Preface
1. Tropic of Saturn
2. The Crows of the Englischer Garten
3. The Latest News from Brussels
4. Blue Smoke on a White Cliff
5. An Irish Jaunt
6. That Old Bilbao Moon
7. The Lights and Shadows of Galicia
8. On the Heights of Aurora
9. Between Byzantium and a Bog
10. The Trieste Passage
11. A Whistle and a Stone
12. Around the Black Mountain
13. Quiet Days in Pula
14. Letter from Stockholm
15. Clandestine Return to Native Shores
THE WINDS OF VANCOUVER
1. The Hour of the Owl
2. The Great Gateway
3. A Story Written on the Winds
4. Renaissance Rock
5. Inventing an Itinerary
6. An Ancestor who Passed this Way
7. The Opening Space
8. Salutations to the Ice-Chief
9. Capital City Talk
10. A Microcosm of the Human Condition
11. At the Top of White Pass
12. In the Backlands of Sitka
13. Traces and Tracks on Kayak Island
14. Across the Kenai
15. Homer’s Town
16. Aboard the Snowbird
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.01.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Collected Works of Kenneth White |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte | |
| Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-3138-7 / 1399531387 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-3138-2 / 9781399531382 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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