Arctic Discourses.
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TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (369 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781443820219
- 1443820210
- Arctic regions -- In literature
- Arctic regions -- Description and travel
- Arctic regions -- Description and travel
- Arctic regions -- In literature
- Arctique -- Dans la littérature
- Arctique -- Descriptions et voyages
- Literary studies: general
- Cultural studies
- Geographical discovery & exploration
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
- Literature
- Travel
- Arctic Regions
- 809.9332113 809.935998
- PN56.3.A65 A73 2010
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Both fictional and non-fictional accounts of the Arctic have long been a major source of powerful images of the region, and have thus had a crucial part to play in the history of human activities there. This volume provides a wide-reaching investigation into the discourses involved in such accounts, above all into the consolidation of a discourse of "Arcticism" (modelled on Edward Said's concept of "Orientalism"), but also into the many intersecting discourses of imperialism, nationalism, mas ...
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Discovering the Arctic -- pt. 2. Imagining and reimagining the Arctic.
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