Writing the Australian beach : local site, global idea
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Writing the Australian beach : local site, global idea
Palgrave Macmillan, c2020 , [Amazon]
- : pbk.
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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Note
Reprint. Originally published: [Cham] : Palgrave Macmillan, c2020
"Printed in Japan 落丁、乱丁本のお問い合わせは Amazon.co.jp カスタマーサービスへ"--Last page (p. [248])
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Writing the Australian Beach is the first book in fifteen years to explore creative and cultural representations of this iconic landscape, and how writers and scholars have attempted to understand and depict it. Although the content chiefly focuses on Australia, the beach as both a location and idea resonates deeply with readers around the world. This edited collection includes three sections. Forms of Beach Writing examines the history of beach writing in Australia and in a number of forms: screenwriting, social media writing, and food writing. In turn, Multiplicities of Australian Beach Writing examines how forms of writing-poetry, travel writing, horror film, and memoir-engage with some specific beaches in Australia. And, finally, Reading the Beach as a Text considers how the beach itself functions in cultural narratives: how we walk the beach; the revealing story of beach soccer; and the design and use of ocean baths. Given its scope, the collection offers a unique resource for scholars of Australian culture and creative writing, and for all those interested in Australian beaches.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements.- Preface.- Chapter 1 Writing the Australian beach: Texts, sites, events and people.- SECTION: Forms of beach writing.- Chapter 2 Surfers and lifeguards: A short history of beach writing in Australia.- Chapter 3 Screenwriting the beach: Conflict, catharsis and the character arc in Australian film.- Chapter 4 Instafamous: Social media influencers and Australian beaches.- Chapter 5 Food writing and the Australian beach: From leisure to labour.- SECTION: Multiplicities of Australian beach writing.- Chapter 6.- Exploring Australian coastal Gothic: Poetry and place.- Chapter 7 Writing Noosa's beach: Travellers' narratives and modernity.- Chapter 8 Beaches in Australian horror films: Sites of fear and retreat.- Chapter 9 Challenging conceptions of beach as paradise in fiction and memoir: The Gold Coast's bathing beauties.- SECTION: Reading the beach as text.- Chapter 10 Walking the Australian beach: Mapping footprints in the sand.- Chapter 11 Australian beach soccer: Tracing paradoxical narratives.- Chapter 12 Australia's ocean baths: Stories of design, aesthetics and swimming.- Chapter 13 Sculpture by the Sea: A visual essay.- Index.
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