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This collection of essays offers a series of reflections on the
specific literary and cultural forms that can be seen as the
product of modernity's spatial transformations, which have taken on
new urgency in today's world of ever increasing mobility and global
networks. The book offers a broad perspective on the narrative and
poetic dimensions of the modern discourses and imaginaries that
have shaped our current geographical sensibilities. In the early
twenty-first century, we are still grappling with the spatial
effects of 'early' and 'high' modern developments, and the
contemporary crises revolving around political boundaries and
geopolitical orders in many parts of the world have intensified
spatial anxieties. They call for a sustained analysis of individual
perceptions, cultural constructions and political implications of
spatial processes, movements and relations. The contributors of
this book focus both on the spatial orders of modernity and on the
various dynamic processes that have shaped our engagement with
modern space. They creatively engage in a dialogue between
literature, cinema, art history, geography, architecture, cultural
semiotics and political science, and they transform twentieth- and
twenty-first-century theory and philosophy to examine the textual
forms of different spatial modernities. The chapters do not only
engage with the cartographies, crossings and displacements
represented within different texts and media, but are also
attentive to the ways in which the latter produce space and perform
mobility. Tracing an arc from Thomas More's Utopia to the digital
spatiality of contemporary autobiographical film, they treat texts
as active cultural forces that crystallize, reinforce, interrogate
or complicate the spatial imaginaries of modernity through their
own narrative and poetic form.
This collection of essays offers a series of reflections on the
specific literary and cultural forms that can be seen as the
product of modernity's spatial transformations, which have taken on
new urgency in today's world of ever increasing mobility and global
networks. The book offers a broad perspective on the narrative and
poetic dimensions of the modern discourses and imaginaries that
have shaped our current geographical sensibilities. In the early
twenty-first century, we are still grappling with the spatial
effects of 'early' and 'high' modern developments, and the
contemporary crises revolving around political boundaries and
geopolitical orders in many parts of the world have intensified
spatial anxieties. They call for a sustained analysis of individual
perceptions, cultural constructions and political implications of
spatial processes, movements and relations. The contributors of
this book focus both on the spatial orders of modernity and on the
various dynamic processes that have shaped our engagement with
modern space. They creatively engage in a dialogue between
literature, cinema, art history, geography, architecture, cultural
semiotics and political science, and they transform twentieth- and
twenty-first-century theory and philosophy to examine the textual
forms of different spatial modernities. The chapters do not only
engage with the cartographies, crossings and displacements
represented within different texts and media, but are also
attentive to the ways in which the latter produce space and perform
mobility. Tracing an arc from Thomas More's Utopia to the digital
spatiality of contemporary autobiographical film, they treat texts
as active cultural forces that crystallize, reinforce, interrogate
or complicate the spatial imaginaries of modernity through their
own narrative and poetic form.
This volume explores the many facets and ongoing transformations of
our visual identities in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Its chapters engage with the constitution of personal, national and
cultural identities at the intersection of the verbal and the
visual across a range of media. They are attentive to how the
medialities and (im)materialities of modern image culture inflect
our conceptions of identity, examining the cultural and political
force of literature, films, online video messages, rap songs,
selfies, digital algorithms, social media, computer-generated
images, photojournalism and branding, among others. They also
reflect on the image theories that emerged in the same time
span-from early theorists such as Charles S. Peirce to
twentieth-century models like those proposed by Roland Barthes and
Jacques Derrida as well as more recent theories by Jacques
Ranciere, W. J. T. Mitchell and others. The contributors of Imaging
Identity come from a wide range of disciplines including literary
studies, media studies, art history, tourism studies and semiotics.
The book will appeal to an interdisciplinary readership interested
in contemporary visual culture and image theory.
This volume explores the many facets and ongoing transformations of
our visual identities in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Its chapters engage with the constitution of personal, national and
cultural identities at the intersection of the verbal and the
visual across a range of media. They are attentive to how the
medialities and (im)materialities of modern image culture inflect
our conceptions of identity, examining the cultural and political
force of literature, films, online video messages, rap songs,
selfies, digital algorithms, social media, computer-generated
images, photojournalism and branding, among others. They also
reflect on the image theories that emerged in the same time
span-from early theorists such as Charles S. Peirce to
twentieth-century models like those proposed by Roland Barthes and
Jacques Derrida as well as more recent theories by Jacques
Ranciere, W. J. T. Mitchell and others. The contributors of Imaging
Identity come from a wide range of disciplines including literary
studies, media studies, art history, tourism studies and semiotics.
The book will appeal to an interdisciplinary readership interested
in contemporary visual culture and image theory.
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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