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Author:   Ursula Kluwick ,  Virginia Richter
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367880965

ISBN 10:   0367880962
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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'Twixt land and sea: approaches to littoral studies'. Visions of the beach in Victorian Britain. Dover beach and the politics and poetics of perspective. 'Gripping to a wet rock': coastal erosion and the land-sea divide as existentialist/ecocritical tropes in contemporary British and Irish fiction. Shorelines: littoral landscapes in the poetry of Michael Longley and Robert Minhinnick. John Burnside's seascapes. Caribbean beachcombers. Literary inscriptions on the South African beach: ambiguous settings, ambivalent textualities. Food for sharks: abjection on the beach. 'Where things meet in the world between sea and land': human-whale encounters in littoral space. Slow violence on the beach: documenting disappearance in There Once Was an Island.

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Ursula Kluwick is Lecturer in English Literature and Virginia Richter is Professor of English Literature at the University of Berne, Switzerland.

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