Royal Holloway, University of London
Graduate Student, Geography
PhD
Thesis Title: Language disembarked: coasts and forests in modern British poetry
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Tim Cresswell
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About
My PhD focusses on theoretical and material readings of coastlines and forests in the work of modern British poets in light of emerging debates in cultural geography specific to these sites. Changing understandings of the dynamics and social practises of littoral space and the politics of British woodland have been expressed and challenged, not just by geographers, but also in avant-garde poetries since 1970. This is an investigation into the texts which challenge normative philosophies of the environment and draw from a range of geographical discourses. I look at two ‘Romantic’ sites and show how poets can go beyond literary tropes to comment on the politics of our inhabitation and cultural construction of these modern environments.
A list of my publications, conference papers, etc. is here: http://amycutler.wordpress.com/about/
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