Contemporary Literary Landscapes: The Poetics of Experience

Daniel Weston argues that literary traditions and first-hand experience combine in contemporary landscape writing through case studies of W.G. Sebald, Ciaran Carson, Iain Sinclair, Robert Macfarlane, and Kathleen Jamie. Intervening in debates between literary scholars who focus on genre and cultural geographers who are concerned that self-perpetuating literary tropes marginalize practice, he shows how the experience of place is recovered in the poetics of text.