The Beach In Anglophone Literatures And Cultures
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The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
Author | : Ursula Kluwick,Virginia Richter |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2016-03-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317040545 |
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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.
Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth Century British Literature History and Culture
Author | : Sandra Dinter,Sarah Schäfer-Althaus |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2023-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783031170201 |
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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.
Medial Bodies between Fiction and Faction
Author | : Denisa Butnaru |
Publsiher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2020-06-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783839447291 |
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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.
The Market Photo Workshop in South Africa and the Born Free Generation
Author | : Julie Bonzon |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2023-09-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781000953251 |
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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.
Victorian Poetry
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : IND:30000159108319 |
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Anglistentag 2002 Bayreuth
Author | : Ewald Mengel,Hans-Jörg Schmid,Michael Steppat |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : OSU:32435071731186 |
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Haunting Ecologies
Author | : Ursula Kluwick |
Publsiher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2024-06-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813950990 |
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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.
Anglophone Literature and Culture in the Anthropocene
Author | : Gina Comos,Caroline Rosenthal |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2019-05-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781527534070 |
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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.