UID:
almahu_9949702168302882
Format:
1 online resource (303 pages)
ISBN:
9789401211864
Series Statement:
Spatial practices ; 20
Content:
The shore defies definition. The shore deconstructs and rebuilds, is the beginning or end of a journey, initiates or stops mobility. Here survivors of shipwrecks, like Robinson Crusoe, escape their death; and the weary and tired, like Max Morden, wade back into the womb of nature. The shore is transformation spatialized. Still the coast as literary setting is more than a decorative space. Its utopian/dystopian nature, its liminality and ambiguity invite transgressions of various kinds, which undermine any notion of stable and fixed borders and boundaries. The littoral is liminal, a third space that contests and deconstructs epistemic certainties. This study illustrates this paradigmatic nature of shorelines from William Shakespeare's The Tempest to John Banville's The Sea .
Note:
Preliminary material -- 1 Transformative Shores - An Introduction -- 2 Ambiguity -- 3 Liminality -- 4 Transgression -- 5 Conclusion: Epistemic Anxieties -- 6 Works Cited -- Index -- Appeared earlier in the SPATIAL PRACTICES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SERIES IN CULTURAL HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY AND LITERATURE.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Sea Change: The Shore from Shakespeare to Banville Leiden, Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2014, ISBN 9789042039049
Language:
English
