Sea change : the shore from Shakespeare to Banville /
Singer, Christoph, 1982-
Sea change : the shore from Shakespeare to Banville / Christoph Singer. - 1 online resource (303 pages) - Spatial practices ; 20 . - Spatial Practices 20. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004292840. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-298) and index.
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 .
9789401211864
10.1163/9789401211864 DOI
Seashore in literature.
Seashore in literature.
PN56.S42 / S564 2014
809
Sea change : the shore from Shakespeare to Banville / Christoph Singer. - 1 online resource (303 pages) - Spatial practices ; 20 . - Spatial Practices 20. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004292840. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-298) and index.
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.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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 .
9789401211864
10.1163/9789401211864 DOI
Seashore in literature.
Seashore in literature.
PN56.S42 / S564 2014
809