By Neal Alexander
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Ciaran Carson is likely one of the such a lot not easy and creative of up to date Irish writers, showing verbal brilliance, formal complexity, and highbrow bold throughout a remarkably diverse physique of labor. This examine considers the entire variety of his oeuvre, in poetry, prose, and translations, and discusses the key issues to which he returns, together with: reminiscence and historical past, narrative, language and translation, mapping, violence, and tool. It argues that the singularity of Carson's writing is to be present in his radical imaginitive engagements with rules of area and position. the town of Belfast, particularly, occupies a crucially vital position in his texts, serving as an resourceful point of interest round which his many different matters are constellated. town, in all its unstable mutability, is an abiding body of reference and a reservoir of artistic impetus for Carson's mind's eye. for that reason, the ebook adopts an interdisciplinary method that attracts upon geography, urbanism, and cultural conception in addition to literary feedback. It presents either a stimulating and thorough creation to Carson's paintings, and a versatile serious framework for exploring literary representations of space.
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