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Author:   Johannes Riquet ,  Elizabeth Kollmann
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.467kg
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9781138304550

ISBN 10:   1138304557
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   01 June 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Figures Acknowledgements Framing the Debate: Spatial Modernities, Travelling Narratives JOHANNES RIQUET PART I Mapping Modernity 1 In the Suburbs of Amaurotum: Fantasy, Utopia and Literary Cartography ROBERT T. TALLY JR. 2 Mapping Utopia CHRISTINA LJUNGBERG 3 Of the Novelty of Bird’s-Eye Views in Eighteenth-Century Travelling Narratives JEAN-PAUL FORSTER 4 Satellite Vision and Geographical Imagination DAVID SHIM PART II Island Spaces 5 Crossing the Sand: The Arrival on the Desert Island BARNEY SAMSON 6 Two Centuries of Spatial ‘Island’ Assumptions: The Swiss Family Robinson and the Robinson Crusoe Legacy BRITTA HARTMANN 7 Island Stills and Island Movements: Un/freezing the Island in 1920s and 1930s Hollywood Cinema JOHANNES RIQUET PART III Shorelines/Borderlines 8 Words and Images of Flight: Representations of the Seashore in the Texts about the Overseas Flight of Estonians during the Autumn of 1944 MAARJA OJAMAA 9 The Literary Channel: Identity and Liminal Space in Island Fictions INA HABERMANN PART IV Modernity on the Move 10 Montaigne: Travel and Travail TOM CONLEY 11 The Expanding Space of the Train Carriage: A phenomenological reading of Michel Butor’s La modification CAROLINE RABOURDIN PART V Late Modernity and the Spatialized Self 12 The Reader, the Writer, the Text: Traversing Spaces in Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes ELIZABETH KOLLMANN 13 Narrative, Space and Autobiographical Film in the Digital Age: An Analysis of The Beaches of Agnès (2008) DEIRDRE RUSSELL Notes on Contributors Index

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Johannes Riquet is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Tampere. His research focuses on spatiality, the multiple relations between literature and geography, travel writing, phenomenology, and film studies. He has published on island narratives, railway literature and cinema, the poetics of snow and ice, and Shakespeare. Elizabeth Kollmann studied in Port Elizabeth and Zurich and completed her PhD in English Literature at the University of Zurich in 2014. Her research interests include life writing, exile, postcolonialism and South African literature. She is a Lecturer in English at the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

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