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Poetry and Islands : Materiality and the Creative Imagination.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (197 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781783484126
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Poetry and IslandsDDC classification:
  • 821.00932142
LOC classification:
  • PN1010 .P385 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: Introduction -- 1.1 The Real and the Fictive -- 1.2 An Outline of Method -- 1.3 Of Islands in General -- Chapter Two: Islands as Symbols -- 2.1 Islands as Figures of Desire and Dread -- 2.2 Islands Lost and Found: Atlantis and Ithaca -- 2.3 Islands and the Archipelagic Imagination -- Chapter Three: Islanders as Types -- 3.1 Settling an Island: Crusoe -- 3.2 Demonizing an Island: Rāvana and Caliban -- 3.3 Returning to an Island: Odysseus -- Chapter Four: Comparative Case Studies -- 4.1 Island Legacies: Iceland and Greece -- 4.2 Island Poetics: Japan and the Caribbean -- 4.3 Island Politics: Ireland and Taiwan -- Chapter Five: In Lieu of a Conclusion: Oceania -- More Water Than Land -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: This book demonstrates the variety of ways in which the materiality of islands is intertwined in a symbiotic relationship with the capacity of the imagination to make islands the site and embodiment of a host of recurrent human desires, anxieties, and hopes.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: Introduction -- 1.1 The Real and the Fictive -- 1.2 An Outline of Method -- 1.3 Of Islands in General -- Chapter Two: Islands as Symbols -- 2.1 Islands as Figures of Desire and Dread -- 2.2 Islands Lost and Found: Atlantis and Ithaca -- 2.3 Islands and the Archipelagic Imagination -- Chapter Three: Islanders as Types -- 3.1 Settling an Island: Crusoe -- 3.2 Demonizing an Island: Rāvana and Caliban -- 3.3 Returning to an Island: Odysseus -- Chapter Four: Comparative Case Studies -- 4.1 Island Legacies: Iceland and Greece -- 4.2 Island Poetics: Japan and the Caribbean -- 4.3 Island Politics: Ireland and Taiwan -- Chapter Five: In Lieu of a Conclusion: Oceania -- More Water Than Land -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

This book demonstrates the variety of ways in which the materiality of islands is intertwined in a symbiotic relationship with the capacity of the imagination to make islands the site and embodiment of a host of recurrent human desires, anxieties, and hopes.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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