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Sea Change : The Shore from Shakespeare to Banville.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Spatial Practices SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789401211864
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sea ChangeDDC classification:
  • 809
LOC classification:
  • PN56.S425 .S564 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Sea Change: The Shore from Shakespeare to Banville -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Transformative Shores - An Introduction -- 1.1 The Shore: From Geography to Literature -- 1.2 On the Literary Shore -- 1.3 Introducing Beach Trialectics in Banville's The Sea -- 2 Ambiguity -- 2.1 The Semantics of the Limit: Trichotomous Boundaries -- 2.2 On Distant Shores - Locating the Utopian Beach -- 2.3 Imaginary Shores and Fraying Peripheries -- 2.4 The Nostalgic Shore in Alex Garland's The Beach -- 3 Liminality -- 3.1 Liminal Shores -- 3.2 The Liminal Shore in Shakespeare's The Tempest -- 3.3 Peripheral Shorelines: Beaches and Semiospheres -- 3.4 Semiospheres in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness -- 4 Transgression -- 4.1 The Shore as a Figure of the Third -- 4.2 Fluid Transgressions in Shakespeare's Macbeth -- 4.3 On Robinson Crusoe's Transgressive Shores -- 4.4 From Heterotopia to Camp: The Politics of the Shore -- 4.5 The Heterotopian Shore in Golding's Lord of the Flies -- 4.6 Fighting Ambiguity on the Shore: The Beach as Camp -- 4.7 Crossing the Epistemic Abyss: Narrating the Other Side in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake -- 4.8 A Second Genesis: The Shorelines of Hell in John Milton's Paradise Lost -- 4.9 Post-Apocalyptic Shores and Identity in Cormac McCarthy's The Road -- 5 Conclusion: Epistemic Anxieties -- 6 Works Cited -- 7 Index -- Appeared earlier in the SPATIAL PRACTICES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SERIES IN CULTURAL HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY AND LITERATURE.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- Sea Change: The Shore from Shakespeare to Banville -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Transformative Shores - An Introduction -- 1.1 The Shore: From Geography to Literature -- 1.2 On the Literary Shore -- 1.3 Introducing Beach Trialectics in Banville's The Sea -- 2 Ambiguity -- 2.1 The Semantics of the Limit: Trichotomous Boundaries -- 2.2 On Distant Shores - Locating the Utopian Beach -- 2.3 Imaginary Shores and Fraying Peripheries -- 2.4 The Nostalgic Shore in Alex Garland's The Beach -- 3 Liminality -- 3.1 Liminal Shores -- 3.2 The Liminal Shore in Shakespeare's The Tempest -- 3.3 Peripheral Shorelines: Beaches and Semiospheres -- 3.4 Semiospheres in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness -- 4 Transgression -- 4.1 The Shore as a Figure of the Third -- 4.2 Fluid Transgressions in Shakespeare's Macbeth -- 4.3 On Robinson Crusoe's Transgressive Shores -- 4.4 From Heterotopia to Camp: The Politics of the Shore -- 4.5 The Heterotopian Shore in Golding's Lord of the Flies -- 4.6 Fighting Ambiguity on the Shore: The Beach as Camp -- 4.7 Crossing the Epistemic Abyss: Narrating the Other Side in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake -- 4.8 A Second Genesis: The Shorelines of Hell in John Milton's Paradise Lost -- 4.9 Post-Apocalyptic Shores and Identity in Cormac McCarthy's The Road -- 5 Conclusion: Epistemic Anxieties -- 6 Works Cited -- 7 Index -- Appeared earlier in the SPATIAL PRACTICES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SERIES IN CULTURAL HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY AND LITERATURE.

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.

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