Sea narratives : cultural responses to the sea, 1600-present /: cultural responses to the sea, 1600-present. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Charlotte Mathieson, editor.
• Editors: Mathieson, Charlotte
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Literature, History and Culture of the Sea, 1600-Present; What Is a Sea Narrative? Cultural Production and the Sea; Transnational Sea Spaces; Bibliography; Chapter 2: A Need to Narrate? Early Modern French Accounts of Atlantic Crossings; Mapping Human Displacement; The Ocean Text and the Circulation of Narrative; Human Agency and the Ocean; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 3: 'A Sea of Stories': Maritime Imagery and Imagination in Napoleonic Narratives of War Captivity An Environmental Divestment A Sea-Girt Audience; Inland Islands; The Trials of the Sea; Marine Crafts; Shores of Homecoming: Seeing the Channel; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 4: 'Through Dustless Tracks' for African Rights: Narrative Currents and Political Imaginaries of Solomon Plaatje's 1914 Sea Voyage; Introduction: Out to Sea About the Land; Agitation by Travel and Publication; Buoyant? Writing the Sea and the Ship; Questions of Mastery; An Interconnected 'World Empire'; Conclusion: Hard Realities, Mobile Possibilities; Bibliography Chapter 5: 'From Icy Backwater to Nuclear Waste Ground': The Russian Arctic Ocean in the Twentieth Century Introduction; The Technological Opening of the Arctic Ocean During the Geopolitical Turmoil of World War I, the Revolution, and Civil War; For Stalin's and the Soviet Union's Glory: The Northeast Passage as a Wonder of Socialist Technology; Toward a 'New Land': Novaya Zemlya Enters the Nuclear Age; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Shores of History, Islands of Ireland: Chronotopes of the Sea in the Contemporary Irish Novel; Ireland, Literature and the Sea: A Short Introduction The Chronotopes of the Sea and Irish Fiction: A Critical Framework 'Shore Encounters': Shorelines, Islands, Family Ties and Generational Conflicts in The Heather Blazing and Sunrise with Sea Monster; Shores of Memory, Trauma and the Creative Mind: A Goat's Song, Grace Notes and The Sea; Seafaring History: The Heterotopia of the Ship in the Neo-Historical Irish Novel: Joseph O'Connor's Star of the Sea; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Women at Sea: Locating and Escaping Gender on the Cornish Coast in Daphne du Maurier's The Loving Spirit and Frenchman's Creek; Introduction; The Cornish Coastal Site Land of the Free? Frenchman's Creek; The Loving Spirit; Bibliography; Chapter 8: Travelling Across Worlds and Texts in A. S. Byatt's Sea Narratives; Empire Against Odysseus: William Adamson and Captain Papagay; Literature and Memory as Mediums in 'The Conjugial Angel'; The Vertiginous Closing of the Circle: The Biographer's Tale; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 9: Unveiling the Anthropo(s)cene: Burning Seas, Cinema of Mourning and the Globalisation of Apocalypse; The Film in Which the Sea Catches Fire; Beyond the Clichés; Yugant as Cinema of the Sea
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.9332162; History; Sea in literature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Sea in literature; History -- World; History -- Social History; General & world history; Social & cultural history; History, Modern; World history; History -- Modern -- General; History: earliest times to present day; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137581167; 1137581166; 1137581158; 9781137581150
• Related ISBNs: 9781137581150
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 29, 2016)
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