Sea Change

The Shore from Shakespeare to Banville
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-420-3904-9
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 303 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Spatial Practices

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.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

1. Transformative Shores – An Introduction
2. Ambiguity
3. Liminality
4. Transgression
5. Conclusion: Epistemic Anxieties

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