Anne (Hrsg.) Collett

Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather

Typhoons, Hurricanes, and Cyclones

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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, Gisèle Pineau, and other writers from places like Australia, Japan, Mauritius, the Caribbean, and the… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: McDougall, Russell (Hrsg.) / Thomas, Sue (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-319-82373-7
EAN: 9783319823737
Produktnummer: 28394302
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 312 S.
Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D1.6 cm 406 g
Auflage: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 406

Über den Autor

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.