The Poetics Of The Antarctic

Author : William E. Lenz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317946526

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The Poetics of the Antarctic by William E. Lenz Pdf

The thesis of this book is that the 19th-century interest in the Antarctic functions for modern scholars as an important index to American self-discovery and self-definition from the 1830s onward. According to the author, American hopes for confirming identity came to be focused on an unlikely goal, the discovery of the illusive Antarctic continent. By examining in detail one literary product of the U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) to Antarctica, James Croxall Palmer's epic poem Thulia: A Tale of the Antarctic (1843), and its revision, The Antarctic Mariner's Song (1868), and by locating these works within their cultural context, Lenz reveals the significance and changing meaning of exploration to emerging American concepts of nationhood. The volume also considers the tradition of American sea fiction in the works of such writers as James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville, arguing that for these writers the Antarctic was a locus of symbolic meaning while for Palmer it was a process of individual and collective perception. The 1868 version of the Palmer poem is attached here as an appendix. A useful bibliography follows that appendix.

Author : Jean McNeil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 1906613397

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Night Orders by Jean McNeil Pdf

In the winter of 2005/06 novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil lived in the Antarctic for over three months as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey. She journeyed to the Antarctic and back on research vessels, flew around the continent in planes, visited remote field camps and lived on a scientific base. Her project was to write a literary novel, published as The Ice Lovers (2009). A subsequent residency in the Arctic, as writer-in-residence with a Natural Environment Research Council expedition to west Greenland in 2009, forms the basis of this polar notebook in poetic form, encompassing journal entries, poetry, images and maps. Vivid, immediate, ambitious, these poem-sequences are 'verbal photographs of essentially mysterious places', where the 'polar night teaches that to know light you must also know darkness'. In Night Orders the novelist's eye for telling detail marries with a keen ear for patterns of sound. McNeil's often daring imagery and willingness to trust the music of poetry is perfectly suited to her task of mapping in languages these extraordinary worlds

Author : Elizabeth Bradfield
Publisher : Red Hen Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781597098267

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Toward Antarctica by Elizabeth Bradfield Pdf

“The most original piece of travel writing about the Antarctic region I have read in years . . . Bradfield is a literary tour guide in the best sense.” —Elizabeth Leane, author of Antarctica in Fiction: Imaginative Narratives of the Far South A poet and a naturalist, Elizabeth Bradfield documents and examines her work as a guide on ships in Antarctica through poetry, prose, and photographs, offering an incisive insider’s vision that challenges traditional tropes of The Last Continent. Inspired by haibun, a stylistic form of Japanese poetry invented by seventeenth-century poet Matsuo Basho to chronicle his journeys in remote Japan, Bradfield uses photographs, compressed prose, and short poems to examine our relationship to remoteness, discovery, expertise, awe, labor, temporary societies, “pure” landscapes, and tourism’s service economy. Antarctica was the focus of Bradfield’s Approaching Ice, written before she had set foot on the continent; now Toward Antarctica furthers her investigation with boots on the ground. A complicated love letter, Toward Antarctica offers a unique view of one of the world’s most iconic wild places. Like having a poet’s behind-the-scenes tour of a natural history museum . . . the exquisite landscape and wildlife come into vivid view; so does the gutsy work and responsibility of being a naturalist guide.” —Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit

Author : Irene Latham
Publisher : Millbrook Press (Tm)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 9781467752169

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When the Sun Shines on Antarctica by Irene Latham Pdf

This poetry collection takes readers to the bottom of the world to experience summer as they've never seen it before. Each poem is accompanied by additional facts and illustrations.

Author : Bernadette Hince,Rupert Summerson,Arnan Wiesel
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781925022292

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Antarctica by Bernadette Hince,Rupert Summerson,Arnan Wiesel Pdf

This is the first book whose subject is the music, sounds and silences of Antarctica. From 2011 until 2014, Australia marked its long-standing connection with Antarctica by celebrating the centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. The icy continent, with its extremes of climate and environment and unique soundscapes, offers great potential for creative achievements in the world of music and sound. This book demonstrates the intellectual and creative engagement of artists, musicians, scientists and writers. Consciousness of sounds — in particular, musical ones — has not been at the forefront of our aims in polar endeavours, but listening to and appreciating them has been as important there as elsewhere.

Author : Elizabeth Leane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107020825

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Antarctica in Fiction by Elizabeth Leane Pdf

This first comprehensive exploration of literary responses to Antarctica maps the far south as a space of the imagination.

Author : Jim Mayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 1909930105

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Shackleton by Jim Mayer Pdf

Sir Ernest Shackleton, known as a tough polar explorer and inspirational leader, also held the words of poets close to his heart; poems influenced his speeches, his letters to his wife and the way he led his men. These verses, selected from his correspondence and other sources, are linked throughout the book to Shackleton's turbulent and restless life, offering fresh insights into his struggles in the Antarctic, his strained but loving marriage and the magnetic attraction of the polar regions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1403880542

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Night Orders by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Day
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199861453

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Antarctica by David Day Pdf

Explains the history of Antarctica, focusing on the explorers and sailors drawn to the continent, the scientific investigations that have taken place there, and the geopolitical implications of the landmass.

Author : William L. Fox
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781595341006

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Terra Antarctica by William L. Fox Pdf

How does the human mind transform space into place, or land into landscape? For more than three decades, William L. Fox has looked at empty landscapes and the role of the arts to investigate the way humans make sense of space. In Terra Antarctica, Fox continues this line of inquiry as he travels to the Antarctic, the “largest and most extreme desert on earth.” This contemporary travel narrative interweaves artistic, cartographic, and scientific images with anecdotes from the author's three-month journey in the Antarctic to create an absorbing and readable narrative of the remote continent. Through its images, history, and firsthand experiences—snowmobile trips through whiteouts and his icy solo hikes past the edge of the mapped world—Fox brings to life a place that few have seen and offers us a look into both the nature of landscape and ourselves.

Author : E. Glasberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137014436

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Antarctica as Cultural Critique by E. Glasberg Pdf

Arguing that Antarctica is the most mediated place on earth and thus an ideal location for testing the limits of bio-political management of population and place, this book remaps national and postcolonial methods and offers a new look on a 'forgotten' continent now the focus of ecological concern.

Author : Katharine Coles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1597097101

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The Earth Is Not Flat by Katharine Coles Pdf

In 2010, poet Katharine Coles sailed across the Drake Passage to spend a month at a tiny Antarctic science station under the auspices of the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. The Earth Is Not Flat, the collection of poems written out of her adventure, invokes the vast land- and seascapes as well as the fauna--penguins, seals, whales, and scientists--she encountered along the way. Addressing not only the present reality of human habitation in Antarctica but also a rich history peopled by figures like Shackleton, Scott, and Amundsen, the poems bring Coles' much-praised intelligence, passion, and humor to bear on subjects ranging from writing a grant proposal for scientists to heavy seas to the addictive potential of joy. Along the way, she continues her passionate meditation on reality and our place in it, using as her vehicles both the natural world and the human-created worlds of art, history, and science.

Author : Mark Nuttall,Torben R Christensen,Martin Siegert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317549574

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The Routledge Handbook of the Polar Regions by Mark Nuttall,Torben R Christensen,Martin Siegert Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of the Polar Regions is an authoritative guide to the Arctic and the Antarctic through an exploration of key areas of research in the physical and natural sciences and the social sciences and humanities. It presents 38 new and original contributions from leading figures and voices in polar research, policy and practice, as well as work from emerging scholars. This handbook aims to approach and understand the Polar Regions as places that are at the forefront of global conversations about some of the most pressing contemporary issues and research questions of our age. The volume provides a discussion of the similarities and differences between the two regions to help deepen understanding and knowledge. Major themes and issues are integrated in the comprehensive introduction chapter by the editors, who are top researchers in their respective fields. The contributions show how polar researchers engage with contemporary debates and use interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to address new developments as well as map out exciting trajectories for future work in the Arctic and the Antarctic. The handbook provides an easy access to key items of scholarly literature and material otherwise inaccessible or scattered throughout a variety of specialist journals and books. A unique one-stop research resource for researchers and policymakers with an interest in the Arctic and Antarctic, it is also a comprehensive reference work for graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

Author : Reed Whittemore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UIUC:30112068907291

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Ways of Misunderstanding Poetry by Reed Whittemore Pdf

Author : Katha Pollitt
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015002761917

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Antarctic Traveller by Katha Pollitt Pdf