Visual Representations of the Arctic: Imagining Shimmering Worlds in Culture, Literature and Politics (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367460661 ISBN 13: 9780367460662

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

Privileging the visual as the main method of communication and meaning-making, this book responds critically to the worldwide discussion about the Arctic and the North, addressing the interrelated issues of climate change, ethics and geopolitics. A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, it supplies an original conceptualization of the Arctic as a visual world encompassing an array of representations, imaginings, and constructions. By examining a broad range of visual forms, media and forms such as art, film, graphic novels, maps, media, and photography, the book advances current debates about visual culture. The book enriches contemporary theories of the visual taking the Arctic as a spatial entity and also as a mode of exploring contemporary and historical visual practices, including imaginary constructions of the North. Original contributions include case studies from all the countries along the Arctic shore, with Russian material occupying a large section due to the country’s impact on the region

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About the Author

Markku Lehtimäki is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Turku, Finland.

Arja Rosenholm is Professor of Russian Language and Culture at Tampere University, Finland.

Vlad Strukov is an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, UK, and a researcher at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Russia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367460661
• ISBN 13: 9780367460662
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 370
• Editor: Lehtimäki Markku, Rosenholm Arja, Strukov Vlad