George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community

Baker, Timothy C.

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“…The notion that the Eucharist represents 'the interruption of a timeless myth into the world that cannot sustain it' 80 is powerfully articulated in the closing scene of Greenvoe when, after the Harvester is killed, one of the Master Horsemen recalls the foolish utterance of the dust -'Resurrection'. 81 The novel concludes with these words:…”

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The catholicity of time in the work of George Mackay Brown

Goroncy

2016

Pacifica

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This essay introduces and explores some explicitly theological concerns in the work of the Orcadian poet, novelist, and dramatist George Mackay Brown . More specifically, its interest is with Brown's presentation and treatment of the notion of time.Drawing on examples from a wide selection of his work, it is argued that Brown's conversion to Roman Catholicism, and in particular his delight in the enchantment of the Mass, allowed him to exploit a distinctly Catholic sacramental theology and aesthetic of creation -its location, people, and history -appraised in light of the Eucharist.

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The catholicity of time in the work of George Mackay Brown

Goroncy

2016

Pacifica

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“…his work in a continuum of Orcadian cultural production; in what is for me his most revealing and under-appreciated work, An Orkney Tapestry (Brown 1969), the Viking skalds and saga writers are directly invoked, and provide the inspiration and framework for an exploration of Brown's native islands. Brown's work emerged from a relationship with an Orkney landscape which is at once physical, cultural, and personal; rooted in his lived experience of place and a spiritual understanding of community, shaped by his Catholic faith-explored in recent works by Linden Bicket (2017), Timothy Baker (2009), and Ron Ferguson (2011). In An Orkney Tapestry Brown clearly articulates his understanding of this relationship and its impact on his work, which will be woven into the ongoing meshwork of the community's life, becoming part of, 'the vision by which the people live, what Edwin Muir called their Fable' (Brown 1969, p. 11).…”

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Orkney Ecologies

Ford

2019

Humanities

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Inspired by Felix Guattari’s Three Ecologies ([1989] 2000), this article explores recent Orkney literature with an environmental focus (Working the Map—ed. J & F Cumming and M. MacInnes; Ebban an’ Flowan—Finlay, A., Watts, L. and Peebles, A.; The Outrun—A. Liptrot; Swimming With Seals—V. Whitworth) in terms of Orkney ecologies—which are always personal, environmental and cultural. Informed by fieldwork carried out in Orkney, looking at discourse around the development of marine renewable energy in the islands, it argues for the use of ecological dialogism, an approach to language and communication which recognises meaning-making as embodied and emergent within a meshwork (Ingold 2011) of lived experience. It explores the texts as part of an ecology of meaning-making within the naturalcultural (Haraway 2007) world, in which environment, social relations and human subjectivity are inextricably entangled. In this view, literary texts can be approached, not as isolated examples of individual creative expression, but as moments of emergent meaning-making in the dialogue between individual, cultural and environmental ecologies, reaching beyond the page into a living meshwork, where we can think in terms of ‘Ecology as Text, Text as Ecology’ (Morton 2010). These Orkney ecologies entangle the natural, personal, cultural and technological, through and as, stories, emphasising interdependence and care for both human and more-than-human relationships. Such moments of connection offer hope of new narrative possibilities with which to face the uncertainty of an Anthropocene future.

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From Dramatic Space to Narrative Place: George Mackay Brown’s Time in a Red Coat

Barnaby

2019

Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies

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George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community

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The catholicity of time in the work of George Mackay Brown

The catholicity of time in the work of George Mackay Brown

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From Dramatic Space to Narrative Place: George Mackay Brown’s Time in a Red Coat

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