Internal, imaginary and ontological exile in Peter Urpeth’s Far Inland (2006)

• Main Author: Manfredi, Camille
• Other Authors: Héritages et Constructions dans le Texte et l'Image (HCTI), Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Brestois des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (IBSHS), Université de Brest (UBO)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2010
• Subjects: Scotland; spirituality; origin; space; exile; return; solitude; reality; city; magic; Far Inland; island; Peter Urpeth; dichotomies; [SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature; [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences; Retour; inuit
• Online Access: https://hal.univ-brest.fr/hal-01114796

International audience The paper proposes to examine how Peter Urpeth, in his first published novel Far Inland (2006), attempted to re-write the traditional dichotomies between island and city, magic and reality, origin and exile.Central to the issues of exile and return, the notions of change, soli...