Postmodern Wetlands

Culture, History, Ecology

Rodney Giblett (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

268 Seiten

1996
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7486-0844-7 (ISBN)

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Swamps and marshes have traditionally been regarded as places of horror and ill health in western culture - places to be feared, drained and filled. In this wide-ranging study, Rod Giblett examines the swamp from a cross-disciplinary standpoint. Using material from fiction, films and popular culture and drawing on literature, cultural studies, philosophy, social theory, critical geography and medical history, he criticises the urge to drain swamps ('the project of modernity') as masculinist and imperialist.

ROD GIBLETT is lecturer in cultural studies in the School of Communication and Cultural Studies, Curtin University of Technology, Australia.

Part 1 Aesthetics and the wetlandscape: introduction - where land and water meet; philosophy (and sociology) in the wetlands - the s(ub)lime and the uncanny. Part 2 Cities and swamps: a modern city and swamp sett(l)ing; the world/womb as wetland, the modern city as cultural symptom and the postmodern city as swamp. Part 3 Bogs and bodies: swamp sickness - marsh miasma and bodily effluvia; the nether regions - sexuality. gendered bodies and Mother Earth. Part 4 Minds and marshes: the melancholic marshes and the Slough of Despond; the psycho(eco)logy of swamps; marsh monsters and swamp serpents - horror of horrors, Part 5 Politics and wetlands; rebels and runaways - the wetland as refuge and site of resistance; conclusion - writing a word for wet wilderness.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.12.1996
Reihe/Serie	Postmodern Theory
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	357 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7486-0844-3 / 0748608443
ISBN-13	978-0-7486-0844-7 / 9780748608447
Zustand	Neuware