Tracking the literature of tropical weather : typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones / Anne Collett, Russell McDougall, Sue Thomas, editors.
2017
PN56.W43
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Title
Tracking the literature of tropical weather : typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones / Anne Collett, Russell McDougall, Sue Thomas, editors.
ISBN
9783319415161 (electronic book)
3319415166 (electronic book)
9783319415154
3319415158
3319415166 (electronic book)
9783319415154
3319415158
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer Science and Business Media : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
PN56.W43
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.9336
Summary
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed February 20, 2017).
Series
Literatures, cultures, and the environment.
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Print version: 3319415158
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