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The Aesthetics of Island Space - Perception, Ideology, Geopoetics (Hardcover)
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The Aesthetics of Island Space - Perception, Ideology, Geopoetics (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Textual Perspectives
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Oxford Textual Perspectives is a series of informative and
provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in
the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures,
and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides
fresh interpretations of fundamental works and of the vital and
challenging issues emerging in English literary studies. By
engaging with the materiality of the literary text, its production,
and reception history, and frequently testing and exploring the
boundaries of the notion of text itself, the volumes in the series
question familiar frameworks and provide innovative interpretations
of both canonical and less well-known works. The Aesthetics of
Island Space discusses islands as central figures in the modern
experience of space. It examines the spatial poetics of islands in
literary texts, from Shakespeare's The Tempest to Ghosh's The
Hungry Tide, in the journals of explorers and scientists such as
James Cook and Charles Darwin, and in Hollywood cinema. It traces
the ways in which literary and cinematic islands have functioned as
malleable spatial figures that offer vivid perceptual experiences
as well as a geopoetic oscillation between the material energies of
words and images and the energies of the physical world. The
chapters focus on America's island gateways (Roanoke and Ellis
Island), visions of tropical islands (Tahiti and imagined South Sea
islands), the islands of the US-Canadian border region in the
Pacific Northwest, and the imaginative appeal of mutable islands.
It argues that modern voyages of discovery posed considerable
perceptual and cognitive challenges to the experience of space, and
that these challenges were negotiated in complex and contradictory
ways via poetic engagement with islands. Discussions of island
narratives in postcolonial theory have broadened understanding of
how islands have been imagined as geometrical abstractions, bounded
spaces easily subjected to the colonial gaze. There is, however, a
second story of islands in the Western imagination which runs
parallel to this colonial story. In this alternative account, the
modern experience of islands in the age of discovery went hand in
hand with a disintegration of received models of understanding
global space. Drawing on and rethinking (post-)phenomenological,
geocritical, and geopoetic theories, The Aesthetics of Island Space
argues that the modern experience of islands as mobile and shifting
territories implied a dispersal, fragmentation, and diversification
of spatial experience, and it explores how this disruption is
registered and negotiated by both non-fictional and fictional
responses.
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