The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: Reading Littoral Space
The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: Reading Littoral Space
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英语文学和文化中的海滩：阅读沿海空间
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2015
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通讯作者：
Virginia Richter
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Ursula Kluwick;Virginia Richter
从早期的殖民遭遇到21世纪的生态灾难，接触的表演一直是海滩政治意义的关键因素。将海滩概念化为一个创造性的比喻，作为一个社会文化场所，以及一个美学上富有生产力的地形，这个系列研究了它作为一个自然环境的多重意义和功能，从维多利亚时代到现在，在人类的想象中产生了欲望和恐惧。作者考察了文学、电影和艺术，以及遭遇和环境危机的时刻，突出了海滩作为一个激发特定行为准则和特定话语的社会空间，作为陆地和水之间的地理边界，作为接触和冲突的历史遗址，作为一个有希望再生和远离日常生活的度假胜地。海滩的多样性反映在地理范围上，有来自英国、爱尔兰、加勒比海、南非、美国、波利尼西亚和新西兰的地方和文本的文章。由于工业化进程和现代休闲和健康文化的兴起，海滩的功能发生了变化，这个跨学科的体量将海滩理论化为陆地与海洋之间，以及自然与文化之间不稳定边界的分界线。
From early colonial encounters to the ecological disasters of the twenty-first century, the performativity of contact has been a crucial element in the political significance of the beach. Conceptualising the beach as a creative trope and as a socio-cultural site, as well as an aesthetically productive topography, this collection examines its multiplicity of meanings and functions as a natural environment engendering both desire and fear in the human imagination from the Victorian period to the present. The contributors examine literature, film, and art, in addition to moments of encounter and environmental crisis, to highlight the beach as a social space inspiring particular codes of behaviour and specific discourses, as a geographical frontier between land and water, as an historical site of contact and conflict, and as a vacationscape promising regeneration and withdrawal from everyday life. The diversity of the beach is reflected in the geographical range, with essays on locales and texts from Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, South Africa, the United States, Polynesia, and New Zealand. Focusing on the changed function of the beach as a result of processes of industrialisation and the rise of a modern leisure and health culture, this interdisciplinary volume theorises the beach as a demarcater of the precarious boundary between land and the sea, as well as between nature and culture.