Screen LibraryIslandology : geography, rhetoric, politics /
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Stanford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Stanford, California : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xiii, 361 pages ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780804786294 : 0804786291 |
| Index Number: | GB471 |
| CLC: | K901 |
| Call Number: | K901/S544 |
| Contents: | Defining islands and isolating definition -- Horizontal and vertical -- Animate swimmers and inanimate floaters -- Material substance and state of matter -- Cities in straits -- Naming and sovereignty -- Utopias and laboratory hypotheses -- Politics, philosophy, epic drama -- The distracted globe -- Island words -- Dire straits -- Liberty -- Hamlet is Germany -- The region of illusion -- Building for a future -- Postamble. |