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Author:
Shell, Marc, author.
Title:
Islandology : geography, rhetoric, politics / Marc Shell.
Publisher:
Stanford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xiii, 361 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm.
Subject:
Islands.
Islands in literature.
Cultural geography.
Cultural geography.
Islands.
Islands in literature.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Defining islands and isolating definition -- Horizontal and vertical -- Animate swimmers and inanimate floaters -- Material substance and state of matter -- Cities in straits -- Naming and sovereignty -- Utopias and laboratory hypotheses -- Politics, philosophy, epic drama -- The distracted globe -- Island words -- Dire straits -- Liberty -- Hamlet is Germany -- The region of illusion -- Building for a future -- Postamble.
ISBN:
0804789266
9780804789264
0804786291 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804786294 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)843858301
LCCN:
2013040186
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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