The Beach In Anglophone Literatures And Cultures

Author : Ursula Kluwick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317040546
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures written by Ursula Kluwick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031170202
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture written by Sandra Dinter and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 3839447291
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medial Bodies between Fiction and Faction written by Denisa Butnaru and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1000953254
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Market Photo Workshop in South Africa and the 'Born Free' Generation written by Julie Bonzon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Poetry written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ewald Mengel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglistentag 2002 Bayreuth written by Ewald Mengel and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gina Comos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527534073
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglophone Literature and Culture in the Anthropocene written by Gina Comos and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Dennis Walder
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631194927
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Colonial Literatures in English written by Dennis Walder and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1998-06-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and accessible introduction to post-colonial literatures in English, Dennis Walder guides the reader through the historical, linguistic, and theoretical issues that inform post-colonial literary study.

Author : Brian McHale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-century Literatures in English written by Brian McHale and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ursula Kluwick
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813950996
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunting Ecologies written by Ursula Kluwick and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.