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Narrating and Constructing the Beach : An Interdisciplinary Approach / ed. by Carina Breidenbach, Tamara Fröhler, Dominik Pensel, Katharina Simon, Florian Telsnig, Martin Wittmann.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature : Komparatistische Studien / Comparative Studies ; 68Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (X, 472 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110671377
  • 9783110672299
  • 9783110672244
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.9332146 23/ger/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Acknowledgements -- Measuring the Beach: Processes, Practices and Discourses -- Gedanken über unsichtbare Inselgruppen -- (Precluded) Arrivals/Departures -- Stranded. The Beach as Ultimate Destination in Joseph Conrad’s Amy Foster and Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice -- Dystopie, Utopie, Heterotopie: Die Imagination des Strands in der Literatur von Afropäerinnen -- Figuring Senegalese Beaches in Moussa Sène Absa’s Films -- Drawing and Crossing Lines -- Strandbekanntschaften in Georg Forsters Reise um die Welt und das europäische Projekt ‚Zivilisation‘ -- Wechselnde Gezeiten: Der Strand als Schauplatz für Wendepunkte in Heldendichtung und höfischer Literatur des Mittelalters -- ‘There’s Law on the Beach!’: Law and Order on Los Angeles’s Beaches 1910s–1970s -- Always on Duty: Galveston’s African American Beaches and Lifeguards -- Building Structures & Assembling Elements -- Sand, Spuren, Architektur – Zur gebauten Ökologie des Strandes -- Strandburgen: Eine deutsche Lust? Zum Strandurlaub seit dem späten neunzehnten Jahrhundert -- Der Strand als Schauplatz weltweiter Fauna. Exotische naturalia auf Stranddarstellungen Jan van Kessels d.Ä. -- SHORELINES & SPACES -- Bodies in Time: Littoral Rhythms of Death and Desire -- Time and Tide Again. Traces, Permeable Spaces and Sensory Perceptions of the Beach in Theodor Storm’s Aquis submersus and HBO’s Big Little Lies -- “Stile balneare.” Singing the Italian Summer by the Seaside (1960s–1980s) -- The Boys on the Beach: Andrew Holleran’s Fire Island -- Stimmen über der Tiefe, gärender Schlamm, Wasserleichen – Theodor Storms Strände -- Social and Material Transformations -- Sisyphos am Strand: Beachcleaning und die litoralen Figurationen fossiler Energiekultur in der zeitgenössischen Umweltfotografie -- The Ephemeral Beachscape: Skateboarding and the Appropriation of Suburban Concrete -- Beached. The Awkward Beginnings of Weimar Democracy -- Der Strand: What to wear on the beach / Was am Strand anziehen? -- Revisited -- Notes on Contributors
Summary: The beach confronts us with crucial issues of our times: migration, postcolonial power structures and mass tourism, climate change and pollution as well as gender and burkini swimwear controversies are examples of the numerous conflicts, discourses and practices that manifest within this liminal zone and that find their focal point there. The interdisciplinary volume understands ‘the beach’ as a (border) phenomenon in its own right and contributes to the new field of beach studies. It takes its point of departure from this changing image of ‘the beach’ to explore how its topographies, experiences and cultural significations are constructed through art, society and culture and how ‘the beach’ shapes poetics and aesthetic strategies in literature, film, photography, painting, music and performance. It aims to gain systematic insights from an analysis of historically and geographically specific varieties of the beach and to create a critical awareness for the contextual implications of contemporary discussions revolving around ‘the beach’.
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Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Acknowledgements -- Measuring the Beach: Processes, Practices and Discourses -- Gedanken über unsichtbare Inselgruppen -- (Precluded) Arrivals/Departures -- Stranded. The Beach as Ultimate Destination in Joseph Conrad’s Amy Foster and Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice -- Dystopie, Utopie, Heterotopie: Die Imagination des Strands in der Literatur von Afropäerinnen -- Figuring Senegalese Beaches in Moussa Sène Absa’s Films -- Drawing and Crossing Lines -- Strandbekanntschaften in Georg Forsters Reise um die Welt und das europäische Projekt ‚Zivilisation‘ -- Wechselnde Gezeiten: Der Strand als Schauplatz für Wendepunkte in Heldendichtung und höfischer Literatur des Mittelalters -- ‘There’s Law on the Beach!’: Law and Order on Los Angeles’s Beaches 1910s–1970s -- Always on Duty: Galveston’s African American Beaches and Lifeguards -- Building Structures & Assembling Elements -- Sand, Spuren, Architektur – Zur gebauten Ökologie des Strandes -- Strandburgen: Eine deutsche Lust? Zum Strandurlaub seit dem späten neunzehnten Jahrhundert -- Der Strand als Schauplatz weltweiter Fauna. Exotische naturalia auf Stranddarstellungen Jan van Kessels d.Ä. -- SHORELINES & SPACES -- Bodies in Time: Littoral Rhythms of Death and Desire -- Time and Tide Again. Traces, Permeable Spaces and Sensory Perceptions of the Beach in Theodor Storm’s Aquis submersus and HBO’s Big Little Lies -- “Stile balneare.” Singing the Italian Summer by the Seaside (1960s–1980s) -- The Boys on the Beach: Andrew Holleran’s Fire Island -- Stimmen über der Tiefe, gärender Schlamm, Wasserleichen – Theodor Storms Strände -- Social and Material Transformations -- Sisyphos am Strand: Beachcleaning und die litoralen Figurationen fossiler Energiekultur in der zeitgenössischen Umweltfotografie -- The Ephemeral Beachscape: Skateboarding and the Appropriation of Suburban Concrete -- Beached. The Awkward Beginnings of Weimar Democracy -- Der Strand: What to wear on the beach / Was am Strand anziehen? -- Revisited -- Notes on Contributors

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The beach confronts us with crucial issues of our times: migration, postcolonial power structures and mass tourism, climate change and pollution as well as gender and burkini swimwear controversies are examples of the numerous conflicts, discourses and practices that manifest within this liminal zone and that find their focal point there. The interdisciplinary volume understands ‘the beach’ as a (border) phenomenon in its own right and contributes to the new field of beach studies. It takes its point of departure from this changing image of ‘the beach’ to explore how its topographies, experiences and cultural significations are constructed through art, society and culture and how ‘the beach’ shapes poetics and aesthetic strategies in literature, film, photography, painting, music and performance. It aims to gain systematic insights from an analysis of historically and geographically specific varieties of the beach and to create a critical awareness for the contextual implications of contemporary discussions revolving around ‘the beach’.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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