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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather : Typhoons, Cyclones, Hurricanes
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'This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which writers have imagined cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons, collectively understood as “tropical weather.” Historically, literature has drawn upon the natural world for its store of symbolic language and technical device, making use of violent storms in the form of plot, drama, trope, and image in order to highlight their relationship to the political, social, and psychological realms of human affairs. Charting this relationship through writers such as Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Gisèle Pineau, and other writers from places like Australia, Japan, Mauritius, the Caribbean, and the Philippines, this ground-breaking collection of essays illuminates the specificities of the ways local, national, and regional communities have made sense and even relied upon the literary to endure the devastation caused by deadly tropical weather.'

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Notes

  • Contents indexed selectively.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Basingstoke, Hampshire,
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Palgrave , 2017 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather, Russell McDougall , Anne Collett , Susan Thomas , single work criticism (p. 1-24)
Cyclones, Indigenous and Invasive, in Northern Australia, Russell McDougall , single work criticism (p. 129-149)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Basingstoke, Hampshire,
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      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Palgrave ,
      2017 .
      image of person or book cover 7034875710159667288.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9783319415161
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