Landscape and Identity in Hugh Thomson's The Green Road into the Trees

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Landscape and Identity in Hugh Thomson's The Green Road into the Trees

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Although familiar with distant and exotic locations, Hugh Thomson became alienated from his own native region. The study explores the process of re-familiarising oneself with the native landscape by allowing the natural environment to inspire probes into its historical and social layers. Thomson&apos;s book, The Green Road into the Trees, documents the restoration of his local identity through physical and psychological immersion in the British countryside. The paper focuses on the phenomenon of slow travel as a means of reconnecting with the environment and enabling one to identify as part of the local landscape. I argue that such reconnection, albeit driven by anthropocentric motivations, helps to break the traditional human-nature dichotomy and enables us to see the landscape as “the engagement of people in place, as experience in the world” (David and Wilson, 2002: 5-6). On a more general level, the analysis also examines how the focus on travelling enriches the genre of nature writing. Although the text analyses nature writing, it is not an environmental study, but rather a study of identity construction.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Landscape and Identity in Hugh Thomson's The Green Road into the Trees

Popis výsledku anglicky

Although familiar with distant and exotic locations, Hugh Thomson became alienated from his own native region. The study explores the process of re-familiarising oneself with the native landscape by allowing the natural environment to inspire probes into its historical and social layers. Thomson&apos;s book, The Green Road into the Trees, documents the restoration of his local identity through physical and psychological immersion in the British countryside. The paper focuses on the phenomenon of slow travel as a means of reconnecting with the environment and enabling one to identify as part of the local landscape. I argue that such reconnection, albeit driven by anthropocentric motivations, helps to break the traditional human-nature dichotomy and enables us to see the landscape as “the engagement of people in place, as experience in the world” (David and Wilson, 2002: 5-6). On a more general level, the analysis also examines how the focus on travelling enriches the genre of nature writing. Although the text analyses nature writing, it is not an environmental study, but rather a study of identity construction.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Interstudia

ISSN

2065-3204

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

39

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2025

Stát vydavatele periodika

RO - Rumunsko

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

137-145

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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