| Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather: Typhoons, Hurricanes, and Cyclones Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Collett, Anne (Editor), McDougall, Russell (Editor), Thomas, Sue (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3319823736 ISBN-13: 9783319823737 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 809 |
| Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.83 lbs) 300 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, Gis le 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. |