Paul Farley

Issue 2.3 Previous Issues

Recovering Nostalgia in Nature Writing

Deborah Lilley May 13, 2013 1 Comment ecocriticism Edgelands Findings Fredric Jameson Granta Green Letters Kathleen Jamie landscape Linda Hutcheon literature Mario Shoard Michael Symmons Roberts nature writers Nature writing Nicholas Dames pastoral Paul Farley Robert McFarlane Svetlana Boym Waterlog

In Edgelands (2011), Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts explain their intention to ‘put aside our nostalgia for places we’ve never really known’ and instead seek…

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Issue 1.4 Previous Issues

Human Nature: Pastoral in the Anthropocene

Deborah Lilley September 1, 2012 2 Comments Anthropocene Arcadia Being Dead contemporary literature ecological concerns Edgelands Findings geological epoch Glen Love Glister human action Jim Crace John Barrell John Bull John Burnside Kathleen Jamie Lawrence Buell Leo Marx Martin Ryle Michael Symmons Roberts pastoral Paul Farley Raymond Williams Terry Gifford The Country and the City The Pesthouse zoology

With the proposition that we are now living in the Anthropocene – the geological epoch defined by human activities and their effects – the conditions of the pastoral are placed under unprecedented threat, and at the same time, they can be seen to be given new significance.

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