Art, Nature and Women in Sara Baume’s "A Line Made by Walking"
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Title: | Art, Nature and Women in Sara Baume’s "A Line Made by Walking" |
Author: | Santos Barral, María Olalla |
Advisor: | Estévez Saá, Margarita |
Subject: | Baume, Sara | A Line Made By Walking | Ecocriticismo | Ecofeminismo | Ecocriticism | Ecofeminism | |
Date of Issue: | 2018-11 |
Abstract: | Sara Baume is probably one of the most promising contemporary irish writers. She is a recent instance of irish women's brilliant contribution to the history of Irish literature. Baume has already published two acclaimed novels as well as several short stories in the most prestigious literary magazines. Women, outcasts, nature andaanimals feature recurrently in her fiction. The present contribution intends to study her second novel "A Line Made By Walking" (2017) in which the author narrates the story of a young woman suffering form depression who retires to her grandmother's house in the middle of nature. In this context, the protagonist who is also an aspiring artist, pays particular attention to the natural world that surrounds her, and begins a most surprising project. Our study analyses the topics in Baume's novle as well as the experimental formal features of her work, we combine a gender approach with the teachings of ecocriticism, ecofemisnism and animal studies. Sara Baume é probablemente unha das escritoras irlandesas contemporáneas máis prometedoras. É un exemplo recente da brillante contribución das mulleres irlandesas á historia da literatura irlandesa. Baume xa publicou dúas aclamadas novelas e varios relatos curtos nas revistas literarias máis prestixiosas. Mulleres, despedidas, natureza e animais figuran de xeito recorrente na súa ficción. A presente contribución pretende estudar a súa segunda novela "A Line Made By Walking" (2017) na que a autora narra a historia dunha muller nova que sufriu unha depresión de forma que se retira á casa da súa avoa en plena natureza. Neste contexto, o protagonista que tamén é un artista aspirante, presta especial atención ao mundo natural que a rodea e comeza un proxecto máis sorprendente. O noso estudo analiza os temas da novidade de Baume así como as características formais experimentais do seu traballo, combinamos un enfoque de xénero coas ensinanzas do ecocriticismo, o ecofemisnismo e os estudos con animais. |
Description: | Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura inglesas. Curso 2018-2019 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10347/20172 |
Rights: | Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional |
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