Theorising Literary Islands
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78348-807-0 (ISBN)
Theorising Literary Islands is a literary and cultural study of both how and why the trope of the island functions within contemporary popular Robinsonade narratives. It traces the development of Western “islomania” – or our obsession with islands – from its origins in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe right up to contemporary Robinsonade texts, focusing predominantly on American and European representations of fictionalized Pacific Island topographies in contemporary literature, film, television, and other media. Theorising Literary Islands argues that the ubiquity of island landscapes within the popular imagination belies certain ideological and cultural anxieties, and posits that the emergence of a Western popular culture tradition can largely be traced through the development of the Robinsonade genre, and through early European and American fascination with the Pacific region.
Ian Kinane is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton, where he teaches popular genre fiction, postcolonial literatures, and children's literature. He is the editor of Didactics and the Modern Robinsonade: New Paradigms for Young Readers (Liverpool University Press 2018) and Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). Ian is currently writing a monograph on British-Jamaica cultural relations in Ian Fleming's Jamaica-set James Bond novels, and he is the editor of the peer-review, open-access International Journal of James Bond Studies.
Acknowledgments/ Introduction: “Which Came First, the Island Books, or Islomania?” / 1. Re-Reading Robinsonade Literature / 2. Geo-Imaginary Islands / 3. Islands: Topographies of Self / 4. Islands of Paradise? / 5. Remediating Islands: From Page to Screen / 6. Islands in Mediation / Afterword: Islands on the Horizon / Bibliography / Filmography / Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 08.02.2017 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 151 x 230 mm |
Gewicht | 390 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78348-807-7 / 1783488077 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78348-807-0 / 9781783488070 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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