Aesthetics of Island Space - Perception, Ideology, Geopoetics

This volume studies the spatial poetics of islands as depicted in literature, the journals of explorers and scientists, and in film. It shows how voyages of discovery posed challenges to the experience of space and how such challenges were negotiated via poetic engagement with islands.

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction: Towards a Poetics of (the) Island(s)


• From Island to Island, and Beyond: Arrivals in the New World


• Islands on the Horizon: The Camera at the Borders of the Tropical Island


• From Insularity to Islandness: Fractals, Fuzzy Borders, and the Fourth Dimension


• From Islands to Archipelagos: Volcanism, Coral, and Geopoetics


• Epilogue: The Life on/of Islands

About the author

Johannes Riquet is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Tampere. His research focuses on spatiality, the multiple relations between literature and geography, travel writing, phenomenology, and film studies. He is the co-editor of Spatial Modernities: Geography, Narrative, Imaginaries (Routledge, 2018), and has published on island narratives, theories of space and place, railway fiction, the poetics of snow and ice, and Shakespeare. He is working on a second book on interrupted railway journeys in British literature and cinema as well as a collaborative project on representations of the transnational Arctic in contemporary fiction. He co-founded the international research group Island Poetics and is on the editorial board of the Island Studies Journal.

Summary

This volume studies the spatial poetics of islands as depicted in literature, the journals of explorers and scientists, and in film. It shows how voyages of discovery posed challenges to the experience of space and how such challenges were negotiated via poetic engagement with islands.

Product details

• Authors: Johannes Riquet, Johannes (Associate Professor of English L Riquet, Johannes (Associate Professor of English Literature Riquet
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780198832409
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883240-9
• No. of pages: 370
• Series: Oxford Textual Perspectives; Oxford Textual Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, maritime history, Literary studies: general, Political Geography