Narratives

Between Two Worlds: Autobiography

The Collected Works of Kenneth White

Volume 3

The Book

2025

Narrative
23,4 x 15,6 cm
288 pages
Harcover
ISBN10: 9781399531351
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Explores the life of one of Scotland’s most important poet-thinkers as told by himself.

• White’s own account of his childhood, education, personal life and success as an author in France
• Reveals of the intellectual sources and influences of White’s theory of ‘geopoetics’
• Tells the story of his relationship to Marie-Claude White and the various homes they inhabited

Kenneth White achieved fame in his adopted country of France as a poet, essayist and travel writer. His status was confirmed in 1983 by his appointment as Professor of Twentieth-Century Poetics at the Sorbonne in Paris, from which position, in 1989, he founded the International Institute of Geopoetics which helped establish ‘geopoetics’, that White had first proposed in the 1970s, as a distinct and recognised discipline in the humanities. Between Two Worlds is White’s account of how a working-class Scot from Ayrshire became a prominent figure in French cultural and intellectual life, despite having been sacked by the university where he was teaching for his part in the student revolt of 1968.

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