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Literature's Sensuous Geographies
Sten Pultz Moslund
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Description for Literature's Sensuous Geographies
Paperback. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Using place studies within a postcolonial context, this study explores the sense-aesthetic dimensions in literature such as smell, sound, etc. that often challenge the rationalizing logic of modernity. Through close readings of writers such as Conrad and Coetzee, Moslund invites scholars to shift focus from discourse analysis to aesthetic analysis.
Using place studies within a postcolonial context, this study explores the sense-aesthetic dimensions in literature such as smell, sound, etc. that often challenge the rationalizing logic of modernity. Through close readings of writers such as Conrad and Coetzee, Moslund invites scholars to shift focus from discourse analysis to aesthetic analysis.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Series
Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
Number of Pages
273
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349502516
SKU
V9781349502516
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99-15
About Sten Pultz Moslund
Sten Pultz Moslund is Associate Professor in the department of Comparative Literature in the Institute for the Study of Culture at the University of Southern Denmark.
Reviews for Literature's Sensuous Geographies
"This is a fascinating extension of the postcolonial concern with place. Moslund takes the theme of the conflicted construction of place into new territory grounding the interrelation of place, body, language, and aesthetics in new readings of some of the key texts in the field." - Bill Ashcroft, Australian Professorial Fellow of the Arts and Media, the University of New ... Read more