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Enhancing Local Identity in Contemporary British Popular Writing

Autoři: Roebuck Olga

Rok: 2025

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Enhancing Local Identity in Contemporary British Popular Writing	The proposed contribution elaborates on the spatial turn of literary studies and combines it with cultural analysis, literary topography, and ecocriticism. Although not a novelty, this multifaceted approach is a response to the “need to study culture in terms of layered structures, or structures with a spatial index, including an attention to place, to local concerns, individual spatial practices and affective relations to the environment.” (Clough and Halley, 2007) The innovativeness of this article is in the sample of literary texts onto which this view is applied, as it works with popular genres of nature writing and crime fiction. As Jon Anderson refers to a “complex entanglement of page and place”, thus, reading literature becomes a way of seeing how location and identity are formed through a complex entanglement of ideas and practices (2014, 42) the selected texts emanate a powerful need to engage directly with the environment, to be part of it and to belong. As popular genres reach a broad segment of readers, the importance of local identity in the contemporary fluid society is clear.	nature writing; crime fiction; local identity; Robert Macfarlane; Hugh Thomson; Steve Burrows