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Language: English
Published by Springer International Publishing, 2018
Series: Book 10 of 21 - Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather | Typhoons, Hurricanes, and Cyclones | Anne Collett (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment | xi | Englisch | 2018 | Springer International Publishing | EAN 9783319823737 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.
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- Title
- Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather | Typhoons, Hurricanes, and Cyclones
- Author
- Anne Collett (u. a.)
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3319823736
- ISBN 13
- 9783319823737
- Item weight
- 406 grams
- Dimensions
- 210 x 148 x 17 mm
- Series
- Book 10 of 21: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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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 Philippines, this ground-breaking collection of essays illuminates the specificities of the ways local, national, and regional communities have made sense and even relied upon the literary to endure the devastation caused by deadly tropical weather.
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About the Author
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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