Ian Kinane

Gebundenes Buch

Theorising Literary Islands

The Island Trope in Contemporary Robinsonade Narratives

Beschreibung

Theorising Literary Islands is an epistemological study of the development of the Robinsonade genre, its ideological functions within contemporary Anglophone cultural thought, and the role of literary and filmic mediation in constructing twentieth and twenty-first century European and American relations with and to the Pacific region.

Autor

Ian Kinane is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton, where he teaches popular genre fiction, postcolonial literatures, and children's literature. He is the editor of Didactics and the Modern Robinsonade: New Paradigms for Young Readers (Liverpool University Press 2018) and Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). Ian is currently writing a monograph on British-Jamaica cultural relations in Ian Fleming's Jamaica-set James Bond novels, and he is the editor of the peer-review, open-access International Journal of James Bond Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 577g
• ISBN-13: 9781783488063
• ISBN-10: 1783488069
• Artikelnr.: 44680326