Littoral Impressionism in "The Wreck of the Archangel" by George Mackay Brown

• Authors: Leleń Halszka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

George Mackay Brown’s poetic renderings of the northern archipelagic world have never been considered in the context of the techniques of literary Impressionism as deployed to attain the aesthetic effect of reader engagement. It is possible to view the author’s mature collection of poetry The Wreck of the Archangel as composed on the principle of littoral Impressionism that expands Joseph Conrad’s idea of art as expressed in the Preface to The Nigger of the “Narcissus”. This article will examine Brown’s ecosophy of community that emerges from his major aesthetic principles which he uses to give the reader a literary experience of a seatangled multiperspectivity. Brown’s unique lyrical-narrative insights into the multiplicity of qualia and ecopoetic focus result in a particular aesthetic effect of phenomenological immediacy. Adopting such a perspective on the Orkney author might be an important point for a reassessment of his position in the history of Scottish and British literature.

Keywords

EN

seatangled multiperspectivity; Conrad’s idea of art; northern archipelagic world; qualia and ecopoetic focus; ecosophy of community

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Acta Neophilologica
• Year: 2023
• Volume: XXV/1
• Pages: 99-115

Contributors

author

Leleń Halszka

• Instytut Literaturoznawstwa UWM

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Identifiers

DOI

10.31648/an.8814