Islands erased by snow and ice: approaching the spatial philosophy of cold water island imaginaries
Representations of islands in Western fiction typically revolve around tropical islands. Critical discourse tends to reproduce this tendency and rarely addresses the specific spatial poetics of cold-water island fictions. This paper discusses three texts that poetically deploy the geographical inven...
Main Author: | Johannes Riquet |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Prince Edward Island
2016-05-01
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Series: | Island Studies Journal |
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Online Access: | http://www.islandstudies.ca/sites/islandstudies.ca/files/ISJ-11-1-I-Riquet.pdf |
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