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100	1		_aRiquet, Johannes, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe aesthetics of island space : _bperception, ideology, geopoetics / _cJohannes Riquet.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c2019.
264		4	_c2019
300			_axvi, 353 pages : _billustrations (black and white) ; _c22cm .
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aOxford textual perspectives
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: towards a poetics of (the) island(s) -- From island to island, and beyond : arrivals in the new world -- Islands on the horizon : the camera at the borders of the tropical island -- From insularity to islandness : fractals, fuzzy borders, and the fourth dimension -- From islands to archipelagos : volcanism, coral and geopoetics -- Epilogue: The life on/of islands.
520	8		_aThe Aesthetics of Island Space discusses islands as central figures in the modern experience of space. It examines the spatial poetics of islands in literary texts, from Shakespeare's The Tempest to Ghosh's The Hungry Tide, in the journals of explorers and scientists such as James Cook and Charles Darwin, and in Hollywood cinema. It traces the ways in which literary and cinematic islands have functioned as malleable spatial figures that offer vivid perceptual experiences as well as a geopoetic oscillation between the material energies of words and images and the energies of the physical world. The chapters focus on America's island gateways (Roanoke and Ellis Island), visions of tropical islands (Tahiti and imagined South Sea islands), the islands of the US-Canadian border region in the Pacific Northwest, and the imaginative appeal of mutable islands. It argues that modern voyages of discovery posed considerable perceptual and cognitive challenges to the experience of space, and that these challenges were negotiated in complex and contradictory ways via poetic engagement with islands. Discussions of island narratives in postcolonial theory have broadened understanding of how islands have been imagined as geometrical abstractions, bounded spaces easily subjected to the colonial gaze. There is, however, a second story of islands in the Western imagination which runs parallel to this colonial story. In this alternative account, the modern experience of islands in the age of discovery went hand in hand with a disintegration of received models of understanding global space.0Drawing on and rethinking (post- )phenomenological, geocritical, and geopoetic theories, The Aesthetics of Island Space argues that the modern experience of islands as mobile and shifting territories implied a dispersal, fragmentation, and diversification of spatial experience, and it explores how this disruption is registered and negotiated by both non-fictional and fictional responses.
521			_aSpecialized.
588	0		_aOnline resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on April 28, 2020).
650		4	_aIslands in literature.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aRiquet, Johannes. _tAesthetics of island space. _bFirst edition. _dOxford : Oxford University Press, 2019 _z9780198832409 _w(OCoLC)1121196023
830		0	_aOxford textual perspectives.
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