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Singer Christoph |
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Sea change : the shore from Shakespeare to Banville / / Christoph Singer |
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Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; New York, New York : , : Rodopi, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Collana |
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Spatial Practices, , 1871-689X ; ; 20 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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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 . |
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