Sea Change : The Shore from Shakespeare to Banville (Spatial Practices)

Singer, Christoph

Editions Rodopi B.V.（2014/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 303 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789042039049
• DDC分類 809

Full Description

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

Acknowledgements

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

Works Cited
Index