The Aesthetics of Island Space: Perception, Ideology, Geopoetics
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Cover The Aesthetics of Island Space: Perception, Ideology, Geopoetics Copyright Dedication Preface Contents List of Figures Introduction: Towards a Poetics of (the) Island(s) Making and Perceiving Islands: Poiesis and Aisthesis Production, Destruction, Sedimentation: Islands between Geography and Text Spatial Disorientations: Islands and Modern Exploration The Poetics of Watery Land: From Insularity to Islandness and Archipelagicity The Meaning of Islands: From Geometrical Abstraction to Material Interference Theoretical Perspectives on (Island) Space: Phenomenology, Geopoetics, Geocriticism Navigating a Sea of Literary and Cinematic Islands Overview of Chapters 1: From Island to Island, and Beyond: Arrivals in the New World Interrupted Journeys and Island Prisons: The Angel Island Poems Through the Golden Door: Imagining America from Ellis Island On the Cusp of Modernity: The Islands of Columbus and His Predecessors Floating Islands and Spouting Volcanoes: The Voyage of Saint Brendan Emergence and Submergence in Modern Space: Multisensory Exposure in The Tempest ‘The mere worck of god flottynge of’: The Tempest and the Roanoke Voyages Immigration with a Detour: Cecil B. DeMille’s Male and Female () Americans before They Arrive: Male and Female, Hollywood, and the Island Conclusion: Multiple Paths, Precarious Arrivals, Migrant Islands 2: Islands on the Horizon: The Camera at the Borders of the Tropical Island Reading the Pacific Island through Myth: The Case of Pitcairn Islands in the American Imaginary: Tourism, Cinema, Fantasy Islands on the Horizon: The Journals of the Early Explorers in the Pacific American Re-vision of the Island: From David Porter to 1920s Hollywood Cinema The Island as Image: White Shadowsin the South Seas (1928) Eroding the Island-Image The Tourist Gaze and Hollywood’s Rediscoveryof the Pacific: The Hurricane (1937) Navigating a Sea of Islands: Challenging the Western Gaze The Hurricane and the Problem of American Imperialism Invading the Island: Ethnography, Film, and the Death of King Kong The Other Island: Skull Island and Mannahatta Conclusion: The Resilience and Fragility of the Island-Image 3: From Insularity to Islandness: Fractals, Fuzzy Borders, and the Fourth Dimension Contested Islands, Windows to History: The San Juans Fuzzy Zones: Phenomenology and the Fractal Aesthetics of George Vancouver’s Islands Open Spaces: Northwest Islands after Vancouver ‘These island waters’: Pacific Northwest Memoirs and the Poetics of Land and Sea How Hilltops Became Islands: Geology and Local Cosmogonies Islands and the Drift of History: 100 Days in the San Juans (1946) An Island of Memory: The Light on the Island (1951) The Island in an Ocean of Becoming: Folly (2001) Islands in Four Dimensions Conclusion: Expansive Islandscapes and Ambivalent Ecologies 4: From Islands to Archipelagos: Volcanism, Coral, and Geopoetics Material Islands, Figurative Islands: Geocriticism and Geopoetics Darwin’s Other Islands: The Aesthetics of Geology Island Life: Wallace’s World of Islands Dust on the Island-Stage: Volcanism and The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) Living Fossils: Bones and Coral in ‘Aepyornis Island’ (1894) The Ecology of Islands Islands Made and Unmade in Days: The Hungry Tide (2004) Beyond the Island: The Geopoetic Archipelago Conclusion: Archipelagic Struggle, Difference, and Discontinuity Epilogue: The Life on/of Islands References INDEX
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