Ursula Kluwick, Virginia Richter

The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (eBook, PDF)

Reading Littoral Space

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Conceptualising the beach as a creative trope and as a socio-cultural site, this collection examines its multiplicity of meanings and functions as a natural environment engendering both desire and fear in the human imagination from the Victorian period to the present. The contributors examine literature, film, and art, as well as moments of encounter and environmental crisis, highlighting the beach as a social space and vacationscape, as a geographical frontier between land and water, and as an historical site of contact and conflict.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317040545
• Artikelnr.: 44865110

Autorenporträt

Ursula Kluwick is Lecturer in English Literature and Virginia Richter is Professor of English Literature at the University of Berne, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

'Twixt land and sea: approaches to littoral studies'. Visions of the beach
in Victorian Britain. Dover beach and the politics and poetics of
perspective. 'Gripping to a wet rock': coastal erosion and the land-sea
divide as existentialist/ecocritical tropes in contemporary British and
Irish fiction. Shorelines: littoral landscapes in the poetry of Michael
Longley and Robert Minhinnick. John Burnside's seascapes. Caribbean
beachcombers. Literary inscriptions on the South African beach: ambiguous
settings, ambivalent textualities. Food for sharks: abjection on the beach.
'Where things meet in the world between sea and land': human-whale
encounters in littoral space. Slow violence on the beach: documenting
disappearance in There Once Was an Island.