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On the Atlantic Edge: A Geopoetics Project: Reprint (Non-Fiction)

On the Atlantic Edge: A Geopoetics Project: Reprint (Non-Fiction)

by KennethWhite (Author), PeterUrpeth (Foreword)

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    Paperback 2006

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Synopsis

On the Atlantic Edge is a self-contained series of lectures delivered to the Edinburgh International Book Festival and, as first Hi-Arts International Fellow, in the Highlands of Scotland.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 118
 Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
Published: 12 Jun 2006
ISBN 10: 1905207085
ISBN 13: 9781905207084

Media Reviews
The book's title is a reference to the idea of the Atlantic Arc , a recognition by twenty-three European nations that they shared a common space , a space for projects . This notion is fundamental to White's ideas. For White, geography is more than maps (and maps are often more than drawings); it includes the geology of Hutton; the way the drift of tectonic plates ultimately reminds us of our connections with other cultures. White prefers to speak about territories as these imply a relationship to the 'great outside', a new type of politics, and a renewed conception of culture . Stuart B Campbell (Northwords Now)
Author Bio
Kenneth White is one of the most daring of Europe's writers, thinkers and teachers. Breaking out of the bounds of a limiting culture, he left Scotland for France in 1967. There he held first the Chair of 20th Century Poetics at the Sorbonne, later founding the International Institute of Geopoetics which now has centres in various countries, including Scotland and England.