Writing the Road: On Drifting and Travelling-Seeing in Kenneth White’s Geopoetics

• Authors: Kocot, Monika

Abstracts

EN

The article will offer a comparative reading of Kenneth White’s poetry, essays and travelogues/waybooks, with the focus on the issue of travelling, in particular the theme of drifting, the practice of writing-travelling and travelling-seeing (voyage-voyance). I will also try to demonstrate that there is a link between White’s theory of geopoetics and the practice of voyage-voyance in his writing. I will focus mainly on selected passages from the chapters of Travels in the Drifting Dawn and poems in which White discusses the issue of his writing-travelling and the process of self-realisation.

Keywords

EN

Kenneth White; writing-travelling; waybook; drifting; intellectual nomadism; voyage-voyance; geopoetics

• Publisher: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
• Journal: Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 29/3
• Pages: 45-62

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Kocot, Monika

Identifiers

DOI

10.7311/0860-5734.29.3.04

Biblioteka Nauki

888932