The Scenology of Landscape in The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
Keywords:
landscape as a cultural artefact, scenology of landscape, literary landscape, John Clare, Matthew Allen, Adam Foulds, The Quickening MazeAbstract
This text presents various possibilities of looking at landscape from a literary perspective, allowing the possibilities of interpreting it as a literary text or a theatrical scene. Such theoretical claims are tested in the analysis of several characters from Adam Foulds’s novel The Quickening Maze.
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