The Ethics of Going North: Moral Geography in Louis MacNeice and Wystan Hugh Auden’s Letters from Iceland

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Ethics of Going North: Moral Geography in Louis MacNeice and Wystan Hugh Auden’s Letters from Iceland
Original language description
Louis MacNeice and Wystan Hugh Auden travelled to Iceland in the summer of 1936. This paper features an analysis of their Letters from Iceland (1937), one of the most innovative and contentious travel books of the interwar period, in terms of the popularity of travelling and travel writing between the wars. I argue that Louis MacNeice and Wystan Hugh Auden’s portrayal of Iceland, its culture, and landscape can be read as a product of the poets’ conscious “tactic of resistance” to the prevalent fascination of the 1930s public and intelligentsia with the “open-air” ethos and travelling south. Besides identifying mutual analogies in the authors’ poetic treatment of Iceland, I also place Auden and MacNeice’s sense of the island within the broader context of their “moral geography,” views on insularity, and approach to escapism.
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Silesian studies in English 2021 : proceedings of the 6th international conference of english and american studies
ISBN
978-80-7510-556-1
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Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
223-241
Publisher name
Slezská univerzita v Opavě
Place of publication
Opava
Event location
Opava
Event date
Sep 9, 2021
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
999

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