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Univerzita Pardubice

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Publikace detail

"A View from the Upper East Side: Britain and the USA in W.H. Auden's 'American' Prose and Poetry."

Autoři: Vít Ladislav

Rok: 2014

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

Tituly:

Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	"A View from the Upper East Side: Britain and the USA in W.H. Auden's 'American' Prose and Poetry."	For humanist geographers examining spatial experience, the idea of ‘home’ represents a prime example of unmatched affective bonds between people and places. Yet, because topophilic sentiments for home accrue gradually through a tumult of mundane daily experiences, they tend to remain fuzzy and subconscious until the experiencing subject gains an outside perspective. Then, memory and reflection make the sense of home sharper, more articulated, but then again also nostalgically distorted. The topic of this presentation derives from W.H. Auden’s refined emotional and intellectual responsiveness to particular places, environmental types, human spatial experience and their inscription into arts. His emigration to the USA in 1939 was accompanied by crucial changes in his ethical and religious positions. Reading Auden’s ‘American’ poetry and prose in light of humanist geography, this presentation will consider the impact on the topographical aspects of his work of his relocation and self-exile in New York. It will examine in particular Auden’s engagement with the culture and landscape of the USA and his ‘mutterland’ Britain, as well as the analogy he drew between them.	W.H. Auden; sense of place; topophilia; national identity