“Pilgrimage” and “Labyrinth”: Walking and Metaphor in Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran

Bożena Kucała

doi:10.24162/EI2024-12445

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Bożena Kucała https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9882-9305

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https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2024-12445

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Islas Aran, Tim Robinson, Nueva escritura de la naturaleza, Escritura del paisaje, Camino, Metáfora

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La aclamada obra en dos volúmenes de Tim Robinson sobre las islas Aran, Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage (1986) y Stones of Aran: Labyrinth (1995), tuvo su origen, por un lado, en la fascinación personal del autor por estas islas y, por otro, desde un ámbito profesional cuando fue animado a llevar a cabo un proyecto cartográfico, el diseño de un detallado mapa de la zona. Las digresiones narrativas en ambos volúmenes están estructuradas en torno a las caminatas de Robinson a lo largo de la costa (Pilgrimage) y a través del interior de Aran (Labyrinth). Sus libros, genéricamente híbridos, combinan la topografía, el folklore, la historia humana y natural, la cultura y la naturaleza. Aunque Robinson es escéptico con la costumbre de idealizar las islas Aran y se declara a sí mismo no creyente, tiende a trascender una narración tangible y factual mediante reflexiones sobre lo espiritual y lo universal, lo que da cabida al lenguaje metafórico. Este artículo explora la intersección de lo académico y lo creativo, lo objetivo y lo personal en Stones of Aran y, especialmente, la tensión que se detecta entre la inclinación a la vez que la resistencia del autor hacia el lenguaje figurativo.

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Bożena Kucała

Bożena Kucała is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture at the Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where she teaches nineteenth-century and contemporary English literature. Her research interests include contemporary British and Irish fiction, especially the historical novel and neo-Victorian fiction. She is the author of Of What Is Passing: Present-Tense Narration in the Contemporary Historical Novel (2023), Intertextual Dialogue with the Victorian Past in the Contemporary Novel (2012) and co-editor of James Joyce and After: Writer and Time (2010), Confronting the Burden of History: Literary Representations of the Past (2012), Travelling Texts: J.M. Coetzee and Other Writers (2014) and Powieść brytyjska w XXI wieku [The British Novel in the 21st Century] (2018).

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