UID:
almahu_9949747500602882
Umfang:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781003407805
,
1003407803
,
9781040014073
,
1040014070
,
9781040014134
,
1040014135
Serie:
Routledge studies in comparative literature
Inhalt:
"As a geo-historical place, the beach integrates a variety of characteristics and functions so multiple that they tend to contradict each other. The beach is both a place of work and trade but also of leisure; it is both a place of therapy and health but also of migration, war, and death; it is a place of mass tourism and boredom but also the place of experiencing the Other; it is a public place but also an uncivilized and desolate place. This book studies the literary representation of the beach from ancient Greek literature up until today, drawing on English, French, Italian, American and Spanish literatures from various periods and genres and presenting multiple ways of comparing and understanding literary beaches as a ubiquitous literary phenomenon. It demonstrates how the literary beach as a both geo-historical place and as an aesthetic literary commonplace has been a constant and privileged resource for the analysis of more general existential, sociological, and moral problems. This is the case when for instance the Tahitian beach becomes the place of the "already modern" in Stevenson's tales, or when the Italian beach becomes a question of modern feminism in Ferrante. In this sense, literature expands the local or national beach by articulating its transnational complexities"--
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Literary beach. New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9781032526737
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Essays
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Literary criticism
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Literary criticism.
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Essays.
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Critiques littéraires.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003407805
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003407805
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