Pubbl/distr/stampa |
London, : University of London Press, 2019
|
Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (xv, 210 pages)
|
Disciplina |
304.23
|
Soggetto topico |
Space
Emptiness (Philosophy)
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
|
Nota di contenuto |
Introduction : confronting emptiness in history / Courtney J. Campbell, Allegra Giovine and Jennifer Keating -- 1. 'Take my advice, go to Morgan's Hotel' : barrenness and abundance in the late Victorian Connemara landscape / Kevin J. James -- 2. Amid the horrors of nature : 'dead' environments at the margins of the Russian empire / Jennifer Keating -- 3. Empty spaces, aviation and the Brazilian nation : the metaphor of conquest in narratives of Edu Chave's cross-country flights in 1912 / Leonie Schuster -- 4. Looking over the ship railings : the colonial voyage and the empty ocean in Empire Marketing Board posters / Tricia Cusack -- 5. Spectral figures : Edward Hopper's empty Paris / Emily C. Burns -- 6. Landscapes of loss : the semantics of empty spaces in contemporary post-apocalyptic fiction / Martin Walter -- 7. Surveying the creative use of vacant space in London c. 1945-95 / Krystallia Kamvasinou and Sarah Ann Milne -- 8. Urban prehistoric enclosures : empty spaces/busy places / Kenneth Brophy.
|
Altri titoli varianti |
Empty Spaces
|
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910346697603321 |