Landscapes of Liminality (eBook, ePUB)

Between Space and Place
Redaktion: Downey, Dara; Parker, Elizabeth; Kinane, Ian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Landscapes of Liminality expands upon existing notions of spatial practice and spatial theory, and examines more intricately the contingent notion of "liminality" as a space of "in-between-ness" that avoids either essentialism or stasis. It capitalises on the extensive research that has already been undertaken in this area, and elaborates on the increasingly important and interrelated notion of liminality within contemporary discussions of spatial practice and theories of place. Bringing together international scholarship, the book offers a broad range of cross-disciplinary approaches to theories of liminality including literary studies, cultural studies, human geography, social studies, and art and design. The volume offers a timely and fascinating intervention which will help in shaping current debates concerning landscape theory, spatial practice, and discussions of liminality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783489862
• Artikelnr.: 47257557

Autorenporträt

Dara Downey is an Associate Lecturer in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, and a Trinity Access Programme tutor. She is the author of American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age (Palgrave, 2014), editor of The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, and Vice Chair of the Irish Association for American Studies. Ian Kinane is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton, where he teaches popular genre fiction, postcolonial literatures, and children's literature. He is the author of Theorising Literary Islands: The Island Trope in Contemporary Robinsonade Narratives (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) and editor of Didactics and the Modern Robinsonade: New Paradigms for Young Readers (Liverpool University Press, 2018). Ian is currently writing a monograph in British-Jamaica cultural relations in Ian Fleming's Jamaica-set James Bond novels, and he is the editor of the peer-review, open-access International Journal of James Bond Studies. Elizabeth Parker is a Teaching Fellow in Contemporary and Popular Literature at the University of Birmingham. She is currently working on her first monograph The Gothic Forest: Deep Dark Woods in the Popular Imagination. She is the TV editor of The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies and is the co-founder of the upcoming journal Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: "A Utopia of the In-Between"
or
Limning the Liminal
Robert T. Tally Jr / Introduction: Locating Liminality: Space
Place
and the In-Between
Dara Downey
Ian Kinane
and Elizabeth Parker / Section One: Liminal Spaces and Places / 1. Close Listening: Urban Soundscapes in Ulysses
Manhattan Transfer
and Berlin Alexanderplatz
Annika Eisenberg / 2. "Cities of the Insane": The Asylum as Ruin in Recent American Horror Narratives
Bernice M. Murphy / 3. In Between Days: Domestic Liminality in the Work of Aideen Barry
Tracy Fahey / 4. Victorian Fireside Storytelling: Christmas
Ritual
and Liminality in Round the Fire: Six Stories
Kate Forrester / 5. "Weren't all true nomads at their happiest in limbo?": Hauntings in Non-Places in Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black and Nicola Barker's Darkmans
Kathryn Bird / Section Two: Liminal Identities / 6. Figures in a Foreign Landscape: Aspects of Liminality in Shaun Tan's The Arrival
Melanie Otto / 7. Liminal Identities of Migrant Groups: The Old Russian Believer