Shipwreck and island motifs in literature and the arts / / edited by Brigitte Le Juez, Olga Springer |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Koninklijke Brill, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (351 pages) |
Disciplina | 344.73094 |
Collana | DQR Studies in Literature |
Soggetto topico | Shipwrecks - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material / Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer -- Introduction: Shipwrecks and Islands as Multilayered, Timeless Metaphors of Human Existence / Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer -- “I-lands”: The Construction and Shipwreck of an Insular Subject in Modern Discourse / Volkmar Billig -- The Island as Chora / Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton , Gerald Naughton and Samiah Haque -- “Mine Was a Peculiar Kind of Wreck”: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Deconstruction of Treasure Island in The Wrecker / Phillip Stevenson -- Robinson in Headphones: The Desert Island as Pop Fetish / Michael Hinds -- Adventures in Form: The Hebrides and the Romantic Imaginary / Heather H. Yeung -- “The Lighthouse” (Edgar Allan Poe, 1849; Cristina Fernández Cubas, 1997): From the “Egocentred” to a “Geocentred” Analysis / Patricia García -- Fifty Years On: Aldous Huxley’s Island (1962) Reconsidered / David Garrett Izzo -- The Gaelicization of Brasil Island: From Cartographic Error to Celtic Elysium / Barbara Freitag -- The Tempest Toss’d Ship: Twelfth Night and Emotional Communities in Early Modern London / Robert J. Vrtis -- A Shipwreck of Faith: Hazardous Voyages and Contested Representations in Milton’s Samson Agonistes / Dyani Johns Taff -- Islands and Irelands: Journeys, Mappings and Re-Mappings / Barra Ó Seaghdha -- “Maybe Girls Need an Island”: Desert Islands and Gender Troubles in Libba Bray’s Beauty Queens / Sara K. Day -- Recreating Home for the New Girl: Domesticity and Adventure in L.T. Meade’s Four on an Island / Amy Hicks -- Lady Castaways in the Gilded Age in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth / Shawn Thomson -- Islands to Get Away From: Postcolonial Islands and Emancipation in Novels by Monica Ali, Andrea Levy and Caryl Phillips / Sandra Vlasta -- Drifting and Foundering: Evolutionary Theory in Kurt Vonnegut’s Galápagos / Shiela Pardee -- “You Turn Worlds Upside Down”: The Politics of Reversal in Terry Pratchett’s Nation / Maria Błaszkiewicz -- Shipwrecks and Desert Islands: Ecology and Nature – A Case Study of How Reality TV and Fictional Films Frame Representations of Islands / Pat Brereton -- The Figuration of the Shipwreck as Political Commentary in Hydra Decapita, an Essay-Film by The Otolith Group / Beatrice Ferrara -- Notes on Contributors / Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer -- Bibliography / Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer -- Index / Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463756803321 |
Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Koninklijke Brill, , 2015 | ||
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Shipwreck and island motifs in literature and the arts / / edited by Brigitte Le Juez, Olga Springer |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Koninklijke Brill, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (351 pages) |
Disciplina | 344.73094 |
Collana | DQR Studies in Literature |
Soggetto topico | Shipwrecks - United States |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material / Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer -- Introduction: Shipwrecks and Islands as Multilayered, Timeless Metaphors of Human Existence / Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer -- “I-lands”: The Construction and Shipwreck of an Insular Subject in Modern Discourse / Volkmar Billig -- The Island as Chora / Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton , Gerald Naughton and Samiah Haque -- “Mine Was a Peculiar Kind of Wreck”: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Deconstruction of Treasure Island in The Wrecker / Phillip Stevenson -- Robinson in Headphones: The Desert Island as Pop Fetish / Michael Hinds -- Adventures in Form: The Hebrides and the Romantic Imaginary / Heather H. Yeung -- “The Lighthouse” (Edgar Allan Poe, 1849; Cristina Fernández Cubas, 1997): From the “Egocentred” to a “Geocentred” Analysis / Patricia García -- Fifty Years On: Aldous Huxley’s Island (1962) Reconsidered / David Garrett Izzo -- The Gaelicization of Brasil Island: From Cartographic Error to Celtic Elysium / Barbara Freitag -- The Tempest Toss’d Ship: Twelfth Night and Emotional Communities in Early Modern London / Robert J. Vrtis -- A Shipwreck of Faith: Hazardous Voyages and Contested Representations in Milton’s Samson Agonistes / Dyani Johns Taff -- Islands and Irelands: Journeys, Mappings and Re-Mappings / Barra Ó Seaghdha -- “Maybe Girls Need an Island”: Desert Islands and Gender Troubles in Libba Bray’s Beauty Queens / Sara K. Day -- Recreating Home for the New Girl: Domesticity and Adventure in L.T. Meade’s Four on an Island / Amy Hicks -- Lady Castaways in the Gilded Age in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth / Shawn Thomson -- Islands to Get Away From: Postcolonial Islands and Emancipation in Novels by Monica Ali, Andrea Levy and Caryl Phillips / Sandra Vlasta -- Drifting and Foundering: Evolutionary Theory in Kurt Vonnegut’s Galápagos / Shiela Pardee -- “You Turn Worlds Upside Down”: The Politics of Reversal in Terry Pratchett’s Nation / Maria Błaszkiewicz -- Shipwrecks and Desert Islands: Ecology and Nature – A Case Study of How Reality TV and Fictional Films Frame Representations of Islands / Pat Brereton -- The Figuration of the Shipwreck as Political Commentary in Hydra Decapita, an Essay-Film by The Otolith Group / Beatrice Ferrara -- Notes on Contributors / Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer -- Bibliography / Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer -- Index / Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788133603321 |
Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Koninklijke Brill, , 2015 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Shipwreck and island motifs in literature and the arts / / edited by Brigitte Le Juez, Olga Springer |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Koninklijke Brill, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (351 pages) |
Disciplina | 344.73094 |
Collana | DQR Studies in Literature |
Soggetto topico | Shipwrecks - United States |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material / Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer -- Introduction: Shipwrecks and Islands as Multilayered, Timeless Metaphors of Human Existence / Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer -- “I-lands”: The Construction and Shipwreck of an Insular Subject in Modern Discourse / Volkmar Billig -- The Island as Chora / Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton , Gerald Naughton and Samiah Haque -- “Mine Was a Peculiar Kind of Wreck”: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Deconstruction of Treasure Island in The Wrecker / Phillip Stevenson -- Robinson in Headphones: The Desert Island as Pop Fetish / Michael Hinds -- Adventures in Form: The Hebrides and the Romantic Imaginary / Heather H. Yeung -- “The Lighthouse” (Edgar Allan Poe, 1849; Cristina Fernández Cubas, 1997): From the “Egocentred” to a “Geocentred” Analysis / Patricia García -- Fifty Years On: Aldous Huxley’s Island (1962) Reconsidered / David Garrett Izzo -- The Gaelicization of Brasil Island: From Cartographic Error to Celtic Elysium / Barbara Freitag -- The Tempest Toss’d Ship: Twelfth Night and Emotional Communities in Early Modern London / Robert J. Vrtis -- A Shipwreck of Faith: Hazardous Voyages and Contested Representations in Milton’s Samson Agonistes / Dyani Johns Taff -- Islands and Irelands: Journeys, Mappings and Re-Mappings / Barra Ó Seaghdha -- “Maybe Girls Need an Island”: Desert Islands and Gender Troubles in Libba Bray’s Beauty Queens / Sara K. Day -- Recreating Home for the New Girl: Domesticity and Adventure in L.T. Meade’s Four on an Island / Amy Hicks -- Lady Castaways in the Gilded Age in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth / Shawn Thomson -- Islands to Get Away From: Postcolonial Islands and Emancipation in Novels by Monica Ali, Andrea Levy and Caryl Phillips / Sandra Vlasta -- Drifting and Foundering: Evolutionary Theory in Kurt Vonnegut’s Galápagos / Shiela Pardee -- “You Turn Worlds Upside Down”: The Politics of Reversal in Terry Pratchett’s Nation / Maria Błaszkiewicz -- Shipwrecks and Desert Islands: Ecology and Nature – A Case Study of How Reality TV and Fictional Films Frame Representations of Islands / Pat Brereton -- The Figuration of the Shipwreck as Political Commentary in Hydra Decapita, an Essay-Film by The Otolith Group / Beatrice Ferrara -- Notes on Contributors / Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer -- Bibliography / Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer -- Index / Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815222103321 |
Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Koninklijke Brill, , 2015 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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