Sea Change: The Shore from Shakespeare to Banville

Language: English

Published by Brill, 2014

9042039043 / 9789042039049

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2014 Brill paperback edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. From the cover: 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: 1 Transformative Shores – An Introduction 1.1 The Shore: From Geography to Literature 1.2 On the Literary Shore 1.3 Introducing Beach Trialectics in Banville's The Sea 2 Ambiguity 2.1 The Semantics of the Limit: Trichotomous Boundaries 2.2 On Distant Shores – Locating the Utopian Beach 2.3 Imaginary Shores and Fraying Peripheries 2.4 The Nostalgic Shore in Alex Garland's The Beach 3 Liminality 3.1 Liminal Shores 3.2 The Liminal Shore in Shakespeare's The Tempest 3.3 Peripheral Shorelines: Beaches and Semiospheres 3.4 Semiospheres in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness 4 Transgression 4.1 The Shore as a Figure of the Third 4.2 Fluid Transgressions in Shakespeare's Macbeth 4.3 On Robinson Crusoe's Transgressive Shores 4.4 From Heterotopia to Camp: The Politics of the Shore 4.5 The Heterotopian Shore in Golding's Lord of the Flies 4.6 Fighting Ambiguity on the Shore: The Beach as Camp 4.7 Crossing the Epistemic Abyss: Narrating the Other Side in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake 4.8 A Second Genesis: The Shorelines of Hell in John Milton's Paradise Lost 4.9 Post-Apocalyptic Shores and Identity in Cormac McCarthy's The Road.…

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Title
Sea Change: The Shore from Shakespeare to Banville
Author
Singer, Christoph
Publisher
Brill
Publication year
2014
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
9042039043
ISBN 13
9789042039049

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