Landscape, Seascape, and the Eco-Spatial Imagination
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This book provides an account of the spatial imagination of landscape and seascape in global literary and cultural contexts, exploring questions of mediation and how various traditions compete for prominence in our spatial imagination. It explores how landscape is at once conceptual and perceptual, illuminating themes including the temporality of space, the mediations of place that form the response of an observer of a landscape, and the development of response in various stages of life. It engages areas such as ecocriticism, landscape theory, colonial and postcolonial theory, hybridization…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
This book provides an account of the spatial imagination of landscape and seascape in global literary and cultural contexts, exploring questions of mediation and how various traditions compete for prominence in our spatial imagination. It explores how landscape is at once conceptual and perceptual, illuminating themes including the temporality of space, the mediations of place that form the response of an observer of a landscape, and the development of response in various stages of life. It engages areas such as ecocriticism, landscape theory, colonial and postcolonial theory, hybridization theory, and East Asian Studies to offer a historicized, global account of our ecospatial imaginations.
Autorenporträt
Simon C. Estok is Professor and Senior Research Fellow (2014-2016) in the Department of English Language and Literature at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea. Estok is also a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Research Center for Comparative Literature and World Literatures at Shanghai Normal University (2013-14) and the Associate Editor for CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. I-Chun Wang is Professor of English at the Center for Languages and Culture at Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan. Jonathan White is Professor Emeritus in Literature at the University of Essex, UK.