The Beach In Anglophone Literatures And Cultures

Author : Ursula Kluwick,Virginia Richter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317040545

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The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures by Ursula Kluwick,Virginia Richter Pdf

From early colonial encounters to the ecological disasters of the twenty-first century, the performativity of contact has been a crucial element in the political significance of the beach. Conceptualising the beach as a creative trope and as a socio-cultural site, as well as an aesthetically productive topography, 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, in addition to moments of encounter and environmental crisis, to highlight the beach as a social space inspiring particular codes of behaviour and specific discourses, as a geographical frontier between land and water, as an historical site of contact and conflict, and as a vacationscape promising regeneration and withdrawal from everyday life. The diversity of the beach is reflected in the geographical range, with essays on locales and texts from Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, South Africa, the United States, Polynesia, and New Zealand. Focusing on the changed function of the beach as a result of processes of industrialisation and the rise of a modern leisure and health culture, this interdisciplinary volume theorises the beach as a demarcater of the precarious boundary between land and the sea, as well as between nature and culture.

Author : Sandra Dinter,Sarah Schäfer-Althaus
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031170201

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Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture by Sandra Dinter,Sarah Schäfer-Althaus Pdf

Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture analyses the cultural and literary histories of medicine and mobility as entangled processes whose discourses and practices constituted, influenced, and transformed each other. Presenting case studies of novels, poetry, travel narratives, diaries, ship magazines, skin care manuals, asylum records, press reports, and various other sources, its chapters identify and discuss diverse literary, historical, and cultural texts, contexts, and modes in which medicine and mobility intersected in nineteenth-century Britain, its empire, and beyond, whereby they illustrate how the paradigms of mobility studies and the medical humanities can complement each other.

Author : Denisa Butnaru
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839447291

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Medial Bodies between Fiction and Faction by Denisa Butnaru Pdf

In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, questioning the understanding of our corporeal limits. Using concrete examples from literary fiction, media studies, philosophy, performance arts, and social sciences, this collection underlines how bodily models and transformations, thought until recently to be only fictional products, have become a part of our reality. The essays provide a spectrum of perspectives on how the body emerges as a transitional environment between fictional and factual elements, a process understood as faction.

Author : Julie Bonzon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000953251

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The Market Photo Workshop in South Africa and the 'Born Free' Generation by Julie Bonzon Pdf

This study presents the history of the Market Photo Workshop (MPW) in Johannesburg and works produced by its new generation of photography students. Founded in 1989 by internationally renowned documentary photographer David Goldblatt, the MPW has reflected upon South African political struggles and sociocultural changes since its creation. Its foundation parallels a moment in time when photography was considered a ‘truth telling’ genre and an essential source of documents deployed against the apartheid regime. This book reflects on the evolution of the MPW in the post-apartheid era and explores how its new generation of students engages the photographic tradition of this institution and the revolutionary times that accompanied its creation to question their present moment. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, photography, African studies, cultural studies and post-colonial studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : English poetry
ISBN : IND:30000159108319

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Victorian Poetry by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ewald Mengel,Hans-Jörg Schmid,Michael Steppat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American poetry
ISBN : OSU:32435071731186

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Anglistentag 2002 Bayreuth by Ewald Mengel,Hans-Jörg Schmid,Michael Steppat Pdf

Author : Ursula Kluwick
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813950990

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Haunting Ecologies by Ursula Kluwick Pdf

Victorians’ views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in people’s daily lives. In the nineteenth century, it left its traces on politics, urban reform, and societal divisions, as well as on conceptualizations of gender roles. Drawing on the methodology of material ecocriticism, Ursula Kluwick’s Haunting Ecologies argues that Victorian Britons were keenly aware of aquatic agency, recognizing water as an active force with the ability to infiltrate bodies and spaces. Kluwick reads works by canonical writers such as Braddon, Dickens, Stoker, and George Eliot alongside sanitary reform discourse, court cases, journalistic articles, satirical cartoons, technical drawings, paintings, and maps. This wide-ranging study sheds new light on Victorian-era anxieties about water contamination as well as on how certain wet landscapes such as sewers, rivers, and marshes became associated with moral corruption and crime. Applying ideas from the field of blue humanities to nineteenth-century texts, Haunting Ecologies argues for the relevance of realism as an Anthropocene form.

Author : Gina Comos,Caroline Rosenthal
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527534070

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Anglophone Literature and Culture in the Anthropocene by Gina Comos,Caroline Rosenthal Pdf

Defined as an ecological epoch in which humans have the most impact on the environment, the Anthropocene poses challenging questions to literary and cultural studies. If, in the Anthropocene, the distinction between nature and culture increasingly collapses, we have to rethink our division between historiography and natural history, as well as notions of the subject and of agency since the Enlightenment. This anthology collects papers from literary and cultural studies that address various issues surrounding the topic. Even though the new epoch seems to require a collective self-understanding as a unified species, readings of the Anthropocene and conceptualizations of human-nature relationships largely differ in Anglophone literatures and cultures. These differing perspectives are reflected in the structure of this book, which is divided into five separate sections: the introductory part familiarizes the reader with the concept and the challenges it poses for the humanities in general and for literary and cultural studies in particular, and the three following sections combine broader, more theoretical, essays with in-depth critical readings of US, Canadian, and Australian representations of the Anthropocene in literature. The final part moves beyond literature to include media theoretical perspectives and discussions of photography and cinema in the Anthropocene.

Author : Brian McHale,Randall Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015066780332

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The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-century Literatures in English by Brian McHale,Randall Stevenson Pdf

This companion with a difference sets a controversial new agenda for literary-historical analysis. It cuts across familiar categories, focusing instead on literary events and texts which consitute 'landmarks' across the century.

Author : Maria Eisenmann,Nancy Grimm,Laurenz Volkmann
Publisher : Universitatsverlag
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English language
ISBN : 3825356191

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Teaching the New English Cultures & Literatures by Maria Eisenmann,Nancy Grimm,Laurenz Volkmann Pdf

"The present volume comprises the first publication in Germany of a full-volume book on teaching the so-called New English Literatures and Cultures. It provides an exemplary survey of the challenges teachers of English are currently faced with, i.e. the opening towards the post-colonial world, and the changing realities of the world we live in"--P. [vii].

Author : Elizabeth DeLoughrey
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824834722

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Routes and Roots by Elizabeth DeLoughrey Pdf

Elizabeth DeLoughrey invokes the cyclical model of the continual movement and rhythm of the ocean (‘tidalectics’) to destabilize the national, ethnic, and even regional frameworks that have been the mainstays of literary study. The result is a privileging of alter/native epistemologies whereby island cultures are positioned where they should have been all along—at the forefront of the world historical process of transoceanic migration and landfall. The research, determination, and intellectual dexterity that infuse this nuanced and meticulous reading of Pacific and Caribbean literature invigorate and deepen our interest in and appreciation of island literature. —Vilsoni Hereniko, University of Hawai‘i "Elizabeth DeLoughrey brings contemporary hybridity, diaspora, and globalization theory to bear on ideas of indigeneity to show the complexities of ‘native’ identities and rights and their grounded opposition as ‘indigenous regionalism’ to free-floating globalized cosmopolitanism. Her models are instructive for all postcolonial readers in an age of transnational migrations." —Paul Sharrad, University of Wollongong, Australia Routes and Roots is the first comparative study of Caribbean and Pacific Island literatures and the first work to bring indigenous and diaspora literary studies together in a sustained dialogue. Taking the "tidalectic" between land and sea as a dynamic starting point, Elizabeth DeLoughrey foregrounds geography and history in her exploration of how island writers inscribe the complex relation between routes and roots. The first section looks at the sea as history in literatures of the Atlantic middle passage and Pacific Island voyaging, theorizing the transoceanic imaginary. The second section turns to the land to examine indigenous epistemologies in nation-building literatures. Both sections are particularly attentive to the ways in which the metaphors of routes and roots are gendered, exploring how masculine travelers are naturalized through their voyages across feminized lands and seas. This methodology of charting transoceanic migration and landfall helps elucidate how theories and people travel, positioning island cultures in the world historical process. In fact, DeLoughrey demonstrates how these tropical island cultures helped constitute the very metropoles that deemed them peripheral to modernity. Fresh in its ideas, original in its approach, Routes and Roots engages broadly with history, anthropology, and feminist, postcolonial, Caribbean, and Pacific literary and cultural studies. It productively traverses diaspora and indigenous studies in a way that will facilitate broader discussion between these often segregated disciplines.

Author : Ekaterina V. Kobeleva,Ben P. Robertson,Shannon W. Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527524101

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The Sea in the Literary Imagination by Ekaterina V. Kobeleva,Ben P. Robertson,Shannon W. Thompson Pdf

This collection explores nautical themes in a variety of literary contexts from multiple cultures. Including contributors from five continents, it emphasizes the universality of human experience with the sea, while focusing on literature that spans a millennium, stretching from medieval romance to the twenty-first-century reimagining of classic literary texts in film. These fresh essays engage in discussions of literature from the UK, the USA, India, Chile, Turkey, Spain, Japan, Colombia, and the Caribbean. Scholars of maritime literature will find the collection interesting for the unique insights it offers on individual literary texts, while general readers will be intrigued by the interconnectedness that it reveals in human experience with the sea.

Author : Matthew Ingleby,Matthew P. M. Kerr
Publisher : EUP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Coastal ecology
ISBN : 1474435742

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Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century by Matthew Ingleby,Matthew P. M. Kerr Pdf

This volume examines the cultural importance of the coastline in Britain during a time of vast change.

Author : Frank Schulze-Engler,Sissy Helff
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789042025639

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Transcultural English Studies by Frank Schulze-Engler,Sissy Helff Pdf

What is most strikingly new about the transcultural is its sudden ubiquity. Following in the wake of previous concepts in cultural and literary studies such as creolization, hybridity, and syncretism, and signalling a family relationship to terms such as transnationality, translocality, and transmigration, 'transcultural' terminology has unobtrusively but powerfully edged its way into contemporary theoretical and critical discourse. The four sections of this volume denote major areas where 'transcultural' questions and problematics have come to the fore: theories of culture and literature that have sought to account for the complexity of culture in a world increasingly characterized by globalization, transnationalization, and interdependence; realities of individual and collective life-worlds shaped by the ubiquity of phenomena and experiences relating to transnational connections and the blurring of cultural boundaries; fictions in literature and other media that explore these realities, negotiate the fuzzy edges of 'ethnic' or 'national' cultures, and participate in the creation of transnational public spheres as well as transcultural imaginations and memories; and, finally, pedagogy and didactics, where earlier models of teaching 'other' cultures are faced with the challenge of coming to terms with cultural complexity both in what is being taught and in the people it is taught to, and where 'target cultures' have become elusive. The idea of 'locating' culture and literature exclusively in the context of ethnicities or nations is rapidly losing plausibility throughout an 'English-speaking world' that has long since been multi- rather than monolingual. Exploring the prospects and contours of 'Transcultural English Studies' thus reflects a set of common challenges and predicaments that in recent years have increasingly moved centre stage not only in the New Literatures in English, but also in British and American studies.

Author : Vincent B. Leitch
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405175281

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Living with Theory by Vincent B. Leitch Pdf

In a clear and readable style, Living with Theory maps out contemporary theory, tracing its complex configurations, its political preoccupations, and its relations with literature. Argues that the field of theory in late postmodern consumer society has become overburdened with new ideas, and that there is an essential need for guides and signposts in this complex field Maps out contemporary theory, tracing its complex configurations, its political preoccupations, and its relations with literature Explores the engagement of theory with such phenomena as globalization and postmodernism, multiculturalism and cultural wars, plus the rise of neoliberalism and the corporate university Highlights the current reconfiguration of critical reading and its potential future