Postmodern wetlands : culture, history, ecology /
Postmodern Wetlands explores the representation of wetlands (swamps, marshes, etc.) in western culture. For many, wetlands are a place of disease and horror often associated with the melancholy and the monstrous; in short, they are 'black waters'. Yet, ecologically, wetlands are vitally im...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©1996.
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| סדרה: | Postmodern theory.
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תוכן הענינים:
- Ch. 1. Introduction: Where Land and Water Meet
- Ch. 2. Philosophy in the Wetlands: The S(ub)lime and the Uncanny
- Ch. 3. A Modern City and its Swamp Sett(l)ing: Decolonising Perth's Wetlands
- Ch. 4. The World/Womb as Wetland, the Modern City as Cultural Symptom and the Postmodern City as Swamp
- Ch. 5. Swamp Sickness: Marsh Miasma and Bodily Effluvia
- Ch. 6. The Nether Regions: Sexuality, the Gendered Body and the Swamps of the Great Mother/Earth
- Ch. 7. The Melancholic Marshes and the Slough of Despond: The Psycho(eco)logy of Swamps
- Ch. 8. Marsh Monsters and Swamp Serpents: Horror of Horrors
- Ch. 9. Rebels and Runaways: The Wetland as Refuge and Site of Resistance
- Ch. 10. Conclusion: Writing a Word for Wetlands.