Landscape, seascape, and the eco-spatial imagination [electronic resource] / edited by Simon C. Estok, I-Chun Wang, and Jonathan White.
Written from within the best traditions of ecocritical thought, this book provides a wide-ranging account of the spatial imagination of landscape and seascape in literary and cultural contexts from many regions of the world. It brings together essays by authors writing from within diverse cultural t...
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction / Jonathan White
- 2. The geography of otherness : the art of moving and the space of time / Jonathan Locke Hart
- 3. The world as a garden landscape and spatial imagination in ancient Egypt / Chloé C.D. Ragazzoli
- 4. One island, two founding myths : when Albion turns into Britain / Sophia Yashih Liu
- 5. Imperial landscape of the Mughal Empire in early seventeenth-century geographical and travel writings / I-Chun Wang
- 6. The sublime as the beautiful : dis-placements in Edward Lear's landscapes and limericks / Mou-Lan Wong
- 7. Some like it hot : Sato Haruo's Travels in the colony / Ping-Hui Liao
- 8. The work of mourning : W.G. Sebald's The rings of Saturn / Yu-Cheng Lee
- 9. The geography of postmodern meta-utopian spaces : "last call for a revolution?" / Mary E. Theis
- 10. The hermitage as a converging space between nature and civilization / Ling Chung
- 11. The changing ethnic landscape of Norwegian theater / Baron Kelly
- 12. Re-visioning Pacific seascapes : performing insular identities in Robert Sullivan's Star waka and Syaman Rapongan's Eyes of the sky / Hsinya Huang
- 13. Place, landscape, and self in Gao Xingjian's Soul mountain / Krishna Barua and Anurag Bhattacharyya
- 14. Afterword: tripping on the edge of everything : landscape and ecocriticism / Simon C. Estok.