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Islands, identity and the literary imagination
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ISBN: 9781783085347 9781783085354 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Anthem Press

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"Australia is the planet's sole island continent. This book argues that the uniqueness of this geography has shaped Australian history and culture, including its literature. Further, it shows how the fluctuating definition of the island continent throws new light on the relationship between islands and continents in the mapping of modernity. The book links the historical and geographical conditions of islands with their potent role in the imaginary of European colonisation. It prises apart the tangled web of geography, fantasy, desire and writing that has framed the Western understanding of islands: their real and material conditions and their symbolic resonance from antiquity into globalised modernity. The book also traces how this spatial imaginary has shaped the modern 'man' who is imagined as being the island's natural inhabitant or mirror. Importantly, the book challenges these habits of thought by their relocation within larger topological and imaginary visions from islanders themsleves"--


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La géocritique mode d'emploi
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ISBN: 2842871405 Year: 2000 Publisher: Limoges : PULIM, Presses universitaires de Limoges,


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Space and place in children's literature, 1789 to the present
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ISBN: 9781472420541 9781315610108 9781317052012 9781317052029 Year: 2015 Volume: *1 Publisher: Burlington, VT Ashgate


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Landscape and the spaces of metaphor in ancient literary theory and criticism
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ISBN: 9780521769556 9781139032827 9781316398500 1316398501 1139032828 1316399621 1316400166 1316396886 1316399087 0521769558 1108814476 131639364X Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This study explores a previously uncharted area of ancient literary theory and criticism: the ancient landscapes (such as the Ilissus river in Athens and Mount Helicon) that generate metaphors for distinguishing styles, which dovetail with ancient conceptions of metaphor as itself spatial and mobile. Ancient writers most often coordinate stylistic features with country settings, where authoritative performers such as Muses, poets, and eventually critics or theorists view, appropriate, and emulate their bounties (for example springs, flowers, rivers, paths). These spaces of metaphor and their elaborations provide poets and critics with a vivid means of distinguishing among styles and an influential vocabulary. Together these figurative terrains shape critical and theoretical discussions in Greece and beyond. Since this discourse has a remarkably wide reach, the book is broad in scope, ranging from archaic Greek poetry through Roman oratory and 'Longinus' to the reception of critical imagery in Proust and Derrida.


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Landscape in children's literature
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ISBN: 9781138794252 1138794252 9780203120422 9781136321139 9781136321177 9781136321184 9780415808149 0415808146 9786613859754 1136321187 0203120426 1283547309 1136321179 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Routledge


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Place and memory in Canada : global perspectives = Lieu et mémoire au Canada : perspectives globales
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ISBN: 8360183112 Year: 2005 Publisher: Kraków : Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci,

The land's wild music : encounters with Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin
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ISBN: 9781595340184 9781595340177 1595340181 1595340173 Year: 2005 Publisher: San Antonio, Tex. : Trinity University Press,

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"A lyric reflection on the nature of landscape and its power to shape the lives and syntax of men and women. Examines the work of American writers Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin, looking at how their landscapes--the Cascades, Long Island, the Colorado Plateau, and the high prairies of the Rocky Mountains--have shaped them"--Provided by publisher.

Apartheid and beyond : South African writers and the politics of place
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ISBN: 9780199791163 9780195112863 0195112865 0199851050 0199791163 0198027265 0195354559 9786611158767 1429468734 1281158763 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Apartheid and Beyond is a major contribution to the study of South African literary culture. It offers elegant readings of Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form revealed in their work. It also explores the way apartheid functioned in its day-to-day operations as a geographical system of control, exerting its power through such spatial mechanisms as residential segregation, bantustans, passes, and prisons. Though in the first instance concerned with literary texts, Apartheid and Beyond also meditates on crucial historical processes like colonial occupation, the creation of black townships, migration, forced removals, the emergence of informal settlements, the gradual integration of white cities, and efforts at land reform. Cumulatively, the six essays in this book tell the story of the transformation of apartheid's landscapes of oppression into the more ambiguous landscapes of contemporary South Africa: landscapes of tourism and leisure, of crime and privatized security, of uncontrolled urbanization and persistent poverty. Barnard's methodologically eclectic writing draws on the work of major European and U.S. theorists like Foucault, De Certeau, and Jameson, as well as important African intellectuals like Mbembe, Ramphele, and Ndebele. It also takes literary figures seriously as theorists of space in their own right. Apartheid and Beyond is both an innovative account of an important body of politically-inflected literature and an imaginative reflection on the socio-spatial aspects of the transition from apartheid to democracy.

Street scenes: Brecht, Benjamin and Berlin
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ISBN: 184150114X 9781841501147 9786610476947 128047694X 1841509086 9781841509082 9781280476945 Year: 2005 Publisher: Bristol Intellect

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Always the focal point in modern times for momentous political, social and cultural upheaval, Berlin has continued, since the fall of the Wall in 1989, to be a city in transition. As the new capital of a reunified Germany it has embarked on a journey of rapid reconfiguration, involving issues of memory, nationhood and ownership. Bertolt Brecht, meanwhile, stands as one of the principal thinkers about art and politics in the 20th century. The 'Street Scene' model, which was the foundation for his theory of an epic theatre, relied precisely on establishing a connection between art's functioning

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theatergeschiedenis --- Theatrical science --- Benjamin, Walter --- Brecht, Bertolt --- Berlin --- Streets --- Place (Philosophy) in literature --- Rues --- Lieu (Philosophie) dans la littérature --- Brecht, Bertolt, --- Benjamin, Walter, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Berlin (Germany) --- Berlin (Allemagne) dans la littérature --- In literature. --- Lieu (Philosophie) dans la littérature --- Berlin (Allemagne) dans la littérature --- Avenues --- Boulevards --- Thoroughfares --- Roads --- History --- Breht, Bertolt, --- Brekht, Bertolʹd, --- Mprecht, Mpertolt, --- Brekht, Bertolʹt, --- Brecht, Bert, --- Brecht, Bertold, --- Pu-lai-hsi-tʻe, --- Pu-lai-hsi-tʻe, Pei-tʻo-erh-tʻe, --- Bŭrehitʻŭ, --- Brecht, Bertholt, --- Bŭrehitʻŭ, Berŭtʻoltʻŭ, --- Brekht, B. --- Brecht, Eugen Berthold Friedrich, --- Brecht, --- Pirekcṭ, Pertōl, --- Pirekcṭ, Pertōlṭ, --- Pireṣṭ, Perṭōlṭ, --- ברכט ַברטולד, --- ברכט, ברטולד --- ברכט, ברטולד, --- ברכט, ברטולט --- ברכט, ברטולט, --- ברעכט, בערטאָלט, --- بريخت، بارتول، --- Benjamin, W. --- Homes and haunts --- Stadt Berlin (Germany) --- Berlin (Germany : State) --- Berlim (Germany) --- Baralīna (Germany) --- Berolinum (Germany) --- Berlinum (Germany) --- Verolino (Germany) --- Land Berlin (Germany) --- Berlin State (Germany) --- Berlino (Germany) --- Berlijn (Germany) --- Berlin (Germany : West) --- Berlin (Germany : East) --- Brecht, Berthold Friedrich --- Brecht, Bertolt. --- Brecht, Bertholt --- Brecht, Bert --- Brecht, Eugen Berthold Friedrich --- Dramatic criticism. --- Theater criticism --- Criticism --- Holz, Detlef, --- Banyaming, --- Benʼyamin, Varutā, --- Peñcamin̲, Vālṭṭar, --- Binyamin, Ṿalṭer, --- בנימין, ולטר --- בנימין, ולטר, --- ולטר, בנימין, --- Penyamin, Palt'ŏ, --- 벤야민 발터,

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