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'Island Genres, Genre Islands' moves the debate about literature and place onto new ground by exploring the island settings of bestsellers. Through a focus on four key genres-crime fiction, thrillers, popular romance fiction, and fantasy fiction-Crane and Fletcher show that genre is fundamental to both the textual representation of real and imagined islands and to actual knowledges and experiences of islands. The book offers broad, comparative readings of the significance of islandness in each of the four genres as well as detailed case studies of major authors and texts. These include chapters on Agatha's Christie's islands, the role of the island in `Bondspace,' the romantic islophilia of Nora Roberts's Three Sisters Island series, and the archipelagic geography of Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea. Crane and Fletcher's book will appeal to specialists in literary studies and cultural geography, as well as in island studies.

Islands in literature. --- Fiction genres.

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Depuis l'Antiquité, les îles ont été abondamment décrites et cartographiées. Au XVe siècle, grâce au "Liber Insularum Arcipelagi" de Cristoforo Buondelmonte, les îles de l'archipel grec deviennent le modèle que l'on retrouve plus tard chez François Rabelais, et deux siècles après encore chez Jonathan Swift. À partir de cet ouvrage, maintes fois recopié, varié, glosé, se développe un genre, l'Isolario, ou "Insulaire", c'est-à-dire la collection d'îles, ou l'atlas d'îles, dont les exemples se multiplient jusqu'au XVIIIe siècle, tantôt manuscrits et tantôt imprimés, en Italie d'abord, puis dans tous les pays d'Europe, de l'Espagne à la Hollande. L'un des Insulaires les plus connus est celui du cosmographe André Thevet, élaboré vers 1586 et demeure inachevé, riche de quelque trois cents cartes d'îles et étendu à toutes les mers du globe. Parallèlement, l'attention continue de se porter sur Lucien de Samosate dont l'Histoire vraie n'en finit pas d'être relue, pour alimenter les voyages de Pantagruel, puis ceux de Gulliver. Ces études sur l'Insulaire, autrement dit les divers avatars d'un archipel universel en constante expansion, esquissent une réflexion sur la diversité non seulement des formes du savoir géographique, mais plus généralement des formes littéraires, histoire, encyclopédies, dictionnaires, récits de voyage, fictions viatiques ou poésie.

Islands in literature --- Imaginary places in literature.

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Islands in literature. --- Defoe, Daniel, --- Trinidad and Tobago --- In literature.

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Islandology is a fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across different cultures and argues for a world of islands. The book explores the logical consequences of geographic place for the development of philosophy and the study of limits (Greece) and for the establishment of North Sea democracy (England and Iceland), explains the location of military hot-spots and great cities (Hormuz and Manhattan), and sheds new light on dozens of world-historical productions whose motivating islandic aspect has not heretofore been recognized (Shakespeare's Hamlet and Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung). Written by Shell in view of the melting of the world's great ice islands, Islandology shows not only new ways that we think about islands but also why and how we think by means of them.

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