The Literature of Place

Region today - some reflections on Geoffrey Hill, D.H. Lawrence and region tone, R.P. Draper; Shakespeare's garden of eloquence - the poetry of the whole land, Charles Calder; Byron, Lawrence and the spirit of place, Michael Herbert; Hardy's choreographic art, Dennis Taylor; "The Woodlanders" - a metaphor of character, Azize Ozguven; the Scottish stories of Margaret Oliphant, Merryn Williams; haunted houses - places and dispossession in Kipling's world, Elliot L. Gilbert; self as region - the case of Conrad, Peter Casagrande; E.M. Forster's Alexandrian essays, Hilda D. Spear; MacDiarmid and English identity, Robert Crawford; the romantic nationalism of R.S. Thomas, Tony Brown; the reader in a floating world - the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro, Valerie Purton; the debatable land - frontier women writers, Rosemarie Morgan; portraits of the prairies in Western Canadian literature, Winnifred M. Boggards; the quiet chameleon - the poetry of Malawi, Adrian Roscoe; the Falklands War - history as myth and metaphor, David Monaghan.