Grimspound and Inhabiting Art
- Submitting institution
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University of Cambridge
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1316
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd
- ISBN
- 9781784105914
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The book brings together a range of complementary writings on art and place. Some of these appeared in more or less similar forms as the work developed over time. Extracts from an early version of the first section (pp. 9-23 in the book) were published as 'from Grimspound', in Contour Lines, ed. Wenborn Hughes (Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2009), 78-85. As the Acknowledgements on pp. 255-6 indicate, the essays on pp. 74-208 were written before 2014 and most of them were originally published elsewhere. None of this work was submitted to REF 2014.
Grimspound considers the relations between language, art, and location: what is the relation between culture and setting? It explores this in two complementary halves. The first part, Grimspound, records the results of an eye-witness investigation of an actual archaeological site used as a key setting in a classic work of detective fiction; it balances affective response to place with the literary critical equivalent of detective work in reading that fiction; it deploys historical and biographical research in offering a 'reading' of the Victorian excavation of the site; and it imagines the cultural conditions in which the site was originally constructed, in a series of poems whose conceptual framework is derived from the 'Nostratic Dictionary'--a glossary of thousands of words generated by the comparative analysis of dozens of ancient languages. The second part, Inhabiting Art, uses the form of the essay to combine literary-critical and art-historical analysis with topographical observation, in order to build an interdisciplinary response to the apprehension of artworks in landscape and cityscape.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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