<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The paper attempts to suggest re-reading literary texts from the perspective of the interconnections between settings and individuals in the process of forging the latter’s place-identity. This environmental concept, meant to foreground the importance of the place for the development of the sense of the self, is to be operated with in a selection of books authored by the Scottish mystery writer, M.C. Beaton.</p></abstract>

The paper attempts to suggest re-reading literary texts from the perspective of the interconnections between settings and individuals in the process of forging the latter’s place-identity. This environmental concept, meant to foreground the importance of the place for the development of the sense of the self, is to be operated with in a selection of books authored by the Scottish mystery writer, M.C. Beaton.

Narratives of Spaces, Places, and People: M.C. Beaton’s Highlands and Highlanders

Romanian Journal of English Studies

The paper attempts to suggest re-reading literary texts from the perspective of the interconnections between settings and individuals in the process of forging...

Narratives of Spaces, Places, and People: M.C. Beaton’s Highlands and Highlanders

Published Online: Feb 22, 2013

Page range: 235 - 242

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2013-0022

Keywords
emplacement, otherness, place-identity, the self

This content is open access.

Narratives of Spaces, Places, and People: M.C. Beaton’s Highlands and Highlanders

Published Online: Feb 22, 2013

Page range: 235 - 242

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2013-0022

Keywordsemplacement, otherness, place-identity, the self

This content is open access.

Keywords
emplacement, otherness, place-identity, the self