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Underwater worlds : submerged visions in science and culture /
Underwater Worlds throws open a new area in the emerging field of "blue" environmental humanities by exploring how subaqueous environments have been imagined and represented across cultures and media. The collection pursues this theme through various disciplinary perspectives and methodolo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Underwater Worlds throws open a new area in the emerging field of "blue" environmental humanities by exploring how subaqueous environments have been imagined and represented across cultures and media. The collection pursues this theme through various disciplinary perspectives and methodologies, including history, literary and film criticism, myth studies, legal studies and the history of art. The essays suggest that, since the nineteenth century, technologies of underwater exploration have generated novel sensory experiences that have destabilized conventional modes of representation and inf. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 245 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781527525535 1527525538 |