Aristippus Meets Crusoe: Rethinking the Beach Encounter

Published in a limited academic edition of 300 copies. Contents: Notes on Contributors; Introduction: "No Other Impression But That One..." (Zbigniew Bialas); Erhard Reckwitz, "Man and His Bestial Other" in the Colonial Encounter: A Literary Case Study; Ampie Coetzee, The Instruments of Imperialism: Colonising Contracts with the Indigene in South Africa; E.M. Anne Bailie, Jasper Mayne and the Fear of the Sea: Amazons and Monsters; Antonio Ballesteros González, Looking for Signs of Colonial Otherness: Defoe, H.G. Wells, Conrad; Liliane Louvel, The Rhetoric of Power, Power of the Rhetoric. Traces, Marks, Vestiges: Mapping Out Territories; Krzysztof Kowalczyk-Twarowski, The Allegorical Encounter: Three Novels by J.M. Coetzee; Carmen Concilio, Resuming Depth, Re-visiting Caves and Rock-Paintings in Colonial and Post-colonial Literature; Stephen Tapscott, American Circles: Emerson, Eakins, the Spires of Form; Greg W. Zacharias, Henry James and Footprints on the American Beach: Finding "the enjoyment of a real relation with the subject"; Marek Kulisz, The Birth of Speed; Bojana Bujwid, Around the Labyrinthine Desert Towards the Sea; Claudia Prainito, Language-Non-Language, the Practical Function of the Word and "The Book of Job"

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