Royal Holloway, University of London
Graduate Student, Geography
PhD Candidate - AHRC multi-disciplinary award
Thesis Title: British Poetry and Topographical Notation
About
I'm currently doing a PhD in the cultural geography and literature departments.
Although the landscape of Britain was the earliest to be tightly mapped and regimented, I am interested in the linguistic means by which writers attempt to escape that system of representation, and the motives behind this.
Poets I am concentrating on include Allen Fisher, Peter Riley, Douglas Oliver, Roy Fisher, Basil Bunting and Andrew Crozier, but I also intend this study to open up approaches to more familiar / canonical works.
Looking at place through the eyes of writers versed in deconstructive trends in geographical theory deepens our sense of the connections between topography and language, and can re-educate us as readers both of landscape and of poetry.
A fuller description of my research can be found on my website here: http://amycutler.wordpress.com/phd-summary/
Contact Information
http://www.amycutler.wordpress.com
72 Lausanne Road
SE15 2JB
London
07906407638
