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1 online resource (269 pages) |
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Routledge Environmental Humanities Ser |
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Routledge Environmental Humanities Ser
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Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; "Diving into the Wreck" by Adrienne Rich; Introduction: Submarine aesthetics; Notes; Further reading; 1. The aesthetics of the early modern grotto and the advent of an empirical nature; Notes; 2. The porcellaneous ocean: Matter and meaning in the rococo undersea; The rococo view; Porcelain at the sea-bottom; Ornamental behavior; Rococo growths; Notes; 3. The logic of the invisible: Perceiving the submarine world in French Enlightenment geography |
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Visualizing the world: finding a language of natureDepicting the invisible: rational visions of the undersea; Conclusion: facing the obscurities of vision; Notes; 4. Understanding the loss of colour; Notes; 5. Hydromania: The social history and literary significance of Romantic swimming; Notes; 6. The great melancholy mother: Michelet's evolutionary ocean in The Sea; Notes; 7. "The Forsaken Merman," "The Little Mermaid," and early modernism: Undersea imagery for the dissociation and dissolution of culture; Notes |
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8. Encountering living corals: A nineteenth-century scientist and artist reveals the underwater realmNotes; 9. Frank Hurley and the symbolic underwater; Introduction; Hurley's expedition to the Torres Strait; Coral reefs; Under the water; Air and surface; Wreck; Memory; The photograph; Conclusion; Notes; 10. The shipwreck of reason: The Surrealist diver and modern maritime salvage; The soluble subject: between perception and cognition; The perils of the Surrealist collective; Historicizing Surrealism: the politics of a collective unconscious |
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Conclusion: Surrealist salvage spectacle, 1936-2017Notes; 11. The shipwreck as undersea gothic; Notes; 12. Deep time and myriad ecosystems: Urban imaginaries and unstable planetary aesthetics; Screen cultures; The naked shingles of the world; Deep time in the city; A distant marble; Notes; 13. Siren and silent song: Evolution and extinction in the submarine; 1 Let me take you down. . .; 2 Let me take you back. . .; 3 The advent of the Anthropocene; 4 "Our time": of song, sound, and silent spring; 5 Endless forms most beautiful; Notes; 14. The ocean hospital -- a walk around the ward |
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Wards 1-12 are presented in colour in Figures 14.1-12 of the plate section. Ward 1. The obscenity of the coral collapse; Ward 2. The warp of water, the geology below; Ward 3. The bloody thread; Ward 4. Swelling lament; Ward 5. Conduits of colour; Ward 6. Blood/chlorophyll; Ward 7. The paediatric ward; Ward 8. Lost habitats; Ward 9. Spheres: the isolation ward; Ward 10. Geometry and geology; Ward 11. Intensive care; Ward 12. A turtle's view: emergency; End of hospital rounds; Notes; Works cited; Index |
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Among global environments, the undersea is unique in the challenges it poses - and the opportunities it affords - for sensation, perception, inquiry, and fantasy. The Aesthetics of the Undersea draws case studies in such potencies from the subaqueous imaginings of Western culture, and from the undersea realities that have inspired them. The chapters explore aesthetic engagements with underwater worlds, and sustain a concern with submarine "sense," in several meanings of that word: when submerged, faculties and fantasies transform, confronting human subjects with their limitations while enlarging the apparent scope of possibility and invention. Terrestrially-established categories and contours shift, metamorphose, or fail altogether to apply. As ocean health acquires an increasing share of the global environmental imaginary, the histories of submarine sense manifest ever-greater importance, and offer resources for documentation as well as creativity. The chapters deal with the sensory, material, and formal provocations of the underwater environment, and consider the consequences of such provocations for aesthetic and epistemological paradigms. Contributors, who hail from the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, include scholars of literature, art, new media, music and history. Cases studies range from baroque and rococo fantasies to the gothic, surrealism, modernism, and contemporary installation art. By juxtaposing early modern and Enlightenment contexts with matters of more recent - and indeed contemporary - importance, The Aesthetics of the Undersea establishes crucial relations among temporally remote entities, which will resonate across the environmental humanities |
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Print version record |
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Ocean -- Miscellanea
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Nature (Aesthetics)
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Environment (Aesthetics)
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Ocean and civilization.
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NATURE -- Ecology.
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blue humanities.
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ecocriticism.
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environmental history.
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environmental humanities.
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environmental literature.
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submarine.
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submarine humanities.
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Environment (Aesthetics)
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Nature (Aesthetics)
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Ocean
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Ocean and civilization
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Trivia and miscellanea
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Quigley, Killian
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| ISBN |
9780429814389 |
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0429814380 |
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9780429814372 |
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0429814372 |
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9780429814365 |
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0429814364 |
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9780429444203 |
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0429444206 |
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