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Author:   Rodney Giblett
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.357kg
ISBN:  

9780748608447

ISBN 10:   0748608443
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   04 December 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Aesthetics and the wetlandscape: introduction - where land and water meet; philosophy (and sociology) in the wetlands - the s(ub)lime and the uncanny. Part 2 Cities and swamps: a modern city and swamp sett(l)ing; the world/womb as wetland, the modern city as cultural symptom and the postmodern city as swamp. Part 3 Bogs and bodies: swamp sickness - marsh miasma and bodily effluvia; the nether regions - sexuality. gendered bodies and Mother Earth. Part 4 Minds and marshes: the melancholic marshes and the Slough of Despond; the psycho(eco)logy of swamps; marsh monsters and swamp serpents - horror of horrors, Part 5 Politics and wetlands; rebels and runaways - the wetland as refuge and site of resistance; conclusion - writing a word for wet wilderness.

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ROD GIBLETT is lecturer in cultural studies in the School of Communication and Cultural Studies, Curtin University of Technology, Australia.

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