Sea change : the shore from Shakespeare to Banville / Christoph Singer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singer, Christoph, author.

Series:

Spatial practices ; 20.

Spatial Practices, 1871-689X ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seashore in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; New York, New York : Rodopi, 2014.

Summary:

The shore defies definition. The shore deconstructs and rebuilds, is the beginning or end of a journey, initiates or stops mobility. Here survivors of shipwrecks, like Robinson Crusoe, escape their death; and the weary and tired, like Max Morden, wade back into the womb of nature. The shore is transformation spatialized. Still 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. The littoral is liminal, a third space that contests and deconstructs epistemic certainties. This study illustrates this paradigmatic nature of shorelines from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest to John Banville’s The Sea .

Contents:

Preliminary material

1 Transformative Shores – An Introduction

2 Ambiguity

3 Liminality

4 Transgression

5 Conclusion: Epistemic Anxieties

6 Works Cited

Index

Appeared earlier in the SPATIAL PRACTICES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SERIES IN CULTURAL HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY AND LITERATURE.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 19, 2016).

ISBN:

94-012-1186-8

OCLC:

899727845

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401211864 DOI