TY  - BOOK
AU  - Singer,Christoph
TI  - Sea change: the shore from Shakespeare to Banville 
T2  - Spatial practices
SN  - 9789401211864
AV  - PN56.S42 S564 2014
U1  - 809 23
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Rodopi.
KW  - Seashore in literature
KW  - fast
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401211864
ER  -