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Islandology : geography, rhetoric, politics

Title
Islandology : geography, rhetoric, politics / Marc Shell.
Author
Shell, Marc
Publication
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]

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Book/TextUse in library JFF 15-1219Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Description
xiii, 361 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Subject
  • Islands
  • Islands in literature
  • Cultural geography
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
JFF 15-1219
ISBN
  • 9780804786294 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0804786291 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780804789264
  • 0804789266
LCCN
  • 2013040186
  • 40024068699
OCLC
843858301
Author
Shell, Marc, author.
Title
Islandology : geography, rhetoric, politics / Marc Shell.
Publisher
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Standard Identifier
40024068699
Research Call Number
JFF 15-1219
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