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100 1 $aRiquet, Johannes,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe aesthetics of island space :$bperception, ideology, geopoetics /$cJohannes Riquet.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c2019.
264 4 $c©2019
300 $axvi, 353 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm.
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490 1 $aOxford Textual Perspectives
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 313-341) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: towards a poetics of (the) island(s) — From island to island, and beyond : arrivals in the new land — Islands on the horizon : the camera at the borders of the tropical island — From insularity to islandness : fractals, fuzzy borders, and the fourth dimension — From islands to archipelagos : volcanism, coral and geopoetics — Epilogue: The life on/of islands.
520 8 $aThe Aesthetics of Island Space discusses islands as central figures in the modern experience of space. It examines the spatial poetics of islands in literary texts, from Shakespeare's The Tempest to Ghosh's The Hungry Tide, in the journals of explorers and scientists such as James Cook and Charles Darwin, and in Hollywood cinema. It traces the ways in which literary and cinematic islands have functioned as malleable spatial figures that offer vivid perceptual experiences as well as a geopoetic oscillation between the material energies of words and images and the energies of the physical world. The chapters focus on America's island gateways (Roanoke and Ellis Island), visions of tropical islands (Tahiti and imagined South Sea islands), the islands of the US-Canadian border region in the Pacific Northwest, and the imaginative appeal of mutable islands. It argues that modern voyages of discovery posed considerable perceptual and cognitive challenges to the experience of space, and that these challenges were negotiated in complex and contradictory ways via poetic engagement with islands. Discussions of island narratives in postcolonial theory have broadened understanding of how islands have been imagined as geometrical abstractions, bounded spaces easily subjected to the colonial gaze. There is, however, a second story of islands in the Western imagination which runs parallel to this colonial story. In this alternative account, the modern experience of islands in the age of discovery went hand in hand with a disintegration of received models of understanding global space.0Drawing on and rethinking (post-)phenomenological, geocritical, and geopoetic theories, The Aesthetics of Island Space argues that the modern experience of islands as mobile and shifting territories implied a dispersal, fragmentation, and diversification of spatial experience, and it explores how this disruption is registered and negotiated by both non-fictional and fictional responses.
650 0 $aIslands in literature.
650 0 $aIslands in motion pictures.
650 0 $aSpace in literature.
650 0 $aSpace in motion pictures.
650 7 $a17.80 literary theory: general.$0(NL-LeOCL)077599195$2bcl
650 7 $aIslands in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00980119
650 7 $aIslands in motion pictures.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01903658
650 7 $aSpace in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01904752
650 7 $aSpace in motion pictures.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01904753
650 7 $aInsel$gMotiv$2gnd
650 7 $aRaum$gMotiv$2gnd
650 7 $aGeopoetik$2gnd
830 0 $aOxford textual perspectives.
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