1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910130607103321

Titolo

Advertiser (Footscray, Vic. : 1914 - 1918)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Victoria

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965758303321

Autore

Bloomfield Mandy <1971->

Titolo

Archaeopoetics : Word, Image, History / / Mandy Bloomfield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8173-8965-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Modern and contemporary poetics

Disciplina

809.1/04

Soggetti

Poetics

Visual perception in literature

Imagery (Psychology) in literature

Poetry, Modern - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Archaeopoetics -- "Radical visible subsurface": Susan Howe's frictional histories of the underword -- "The word. the image": Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's fractured forms -- "Haemorrhage of uns -": Maggie O'Sullivan's corporeal salvagings -- Isles full of noises: Kamau Brathwaite's archipelagic poetics -- Alluvial siftings: M. Nourbese Philip's marine archaeopoetics -- Afterword: archaeopoetic afterlives.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores poetry as historical investigation, examining works by five contemporary poets whose creations represent new, materially



emphatic methods of engaging with the past and producing new kinds of historical knowledge Archaeopoetics explores "archaeological poetry," ground-breaking and experimental writing by innovative poets whose work opens.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969201103321

Autore

Leask Nigel

Titolo

Curiosity and the aesthetics of travel-writing, 1770-1840 : from an antique land / / Nigel Leask

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

1-383-03846-5

1-280-44669-2

0-19-155439-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 338 p. ) : ill. ;

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

820.9/355

Soggetti

Travel writing - History - 18th century

Travel writing - History - 19th century

Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Practices and Narratives of Romantic Travel -- 1. Cycles of Accumulation, Aesthetics of Curiosity, and Temporal Exchange -- Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Discourse -- Temporalization and the Comparison of Cultures -- 2. Curious Narrative and the Problem of Credit: James Bruce's Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile -- Curiosity and the Dynamics of Scale -- Publication -- Scientific Credit -- At the Nile Source -- The Medici Venus and 'Curious' Masculinity -- The Raw and the Cooked -- Coda -- 3. 'Young Memnon' and Romantic Egyptomania -- Part 1: Shelley's 'Ozymandias' and Napoleon's Savants -- Shelley and the Savants: Volney, Denon, and the Description de l'Egypte -- Part 2: Belzoni, Burckhardt, and the 'Rape of the Nile' -- 4. Indian Travel Writing and



the Imperial Picturesque -- Modalities of Indian Travel Writing -- The Picturesque Modality -- The Peer and the 'Bishop Sahib': The Indian Travel Narratives of Lord Valentia and Reginald Heber -- Reginald Heber's Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India -- The Radical Anti-Picturesque: James Mill and Victor Jacquemont -- 5. Domesticating Distance: Three Women Travel Writers in British India -- Maria Graham: The Oriental Traveller as Female Moralist -- Emma Roberts, Oriental Tourism, and the 'Moonlight Picturesque' -- 'A Pencil instead of a Gun': Fanny Parks and Curiosity -- Colonial Politics and Feminism -- Curiosity, Collecting, Narrating -- 6. Alexander von Humboldt and the Romantic Imagination of America: The Impossibility of Personal Narrative -- The Physical Portrait of the Tropics and Aspects of Nature -- Humboldt and the Dispute of the New World -- The Political Essay on New Spain -- Conclusion: William Bullock's Mexico and the Reassertion of 'Popular Curiosity' -- Bibliography.

Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on original texts and modern scholarship in literature, history and anthropology, this text focuses on the unstable discourse of curiosity to offer a reformulation of the relations between literature, aesthetics and colonialism in the period.