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Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather: Typhoons, Hurricanes, and Cyclones
Anne Collett (Ed.)
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Description for Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather: Typhoons, Hurricanes, and Cyclones
Hardback. Editor(s): Collett, Anne; McDougall, Russell; Thomas, Susan. Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment. Num Pages: 300 pages, 2 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 219 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which writers have imagined cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons, collectively understood as tropical weather. Historically, literature has drawn upon the natural world for its store of symbolic language and technical device, making use of violent storms in the form of plot, drama, trope, and image in order to highlight their relationship to the political, social, and psychological realms of human affairs. Charting this relationship through writers such as Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Gisele Pineau, and other writers from places like Australia, Japan, Mauritius, the Caribbean, and the Philippines, this ... Read more
This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which writers have imagined cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons, collectively understood as tropical weather. Historically, literature has drawn upon the natural world for its store of symbolic language and technical device, making use of violent storms in the form of plot, drama, trope, and image in order to highlight their relationship to the political, social, and psychological realms of human affairs. Charting this relationship through writers such as Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Gisele Pineau, and other writers from places like Australia, Japan, Mauritius, the Caribbean, and the Philippines, this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Condition
New
Series
Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319415154
SKU
V9783319415154
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Ref
99-15
About Anne Collett (Ed.)
Anne Collett is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Russell McDougall is Professor of English at the University of New England, Australia. Sue Thomas is Professor of English at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
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