| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 245 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Mythic creatures of the deep -- At water's edge : mermaids and sea snails in the symbolist art of Arnold Böcklin and Leo Putz -- Tennyson's Kraken under the microscope and in the aquarium -- Ways of seeing underwater -- Adventures in toxic atmosphere -- Imagining the deep sea : modes of representation on the HMS Challenger expedition -- The Victorian aquarium as a miniature sea -- Culture and imperialism underwater -- Cultural salvage at sea : El Caleuche and myths from Chloé Island -- Drowned in law : an examination of M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong! and the regulation of human remains in international waters -- Sea life on screen -- Marey's aquarium : the underwater world and the archaeology of cinema -- Bloodied waters : spectator desire and viewer implication in The cove (2009) and Blackfish (2013) -- What lies beneath : virtual and augmented reality techniques for maritime heritage. |
| Summary |
Underwater Worlds throws open a new area in the emerging field of "blue" environmental humanities by exploring how subaqueous environments have been imagined and represented across cultures and media. The collection pursues this theme through various disciplinary perspectives and methodologies, including history, literary and film criticism, myth studies, legal studies and the history of art. The essays suggest that, since the nineteenth century, technologies of underwater exploration have generated novel sensory experiences that have destabilized conventional modes of representation and inf. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sea in art.
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Sea in art. |
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Underwater exploration.
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Underwater exploration. |
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Sea in literature.
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Sea in literature. |
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Sea in motion pictures.
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ART -- Performance. |
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Sea in motion pictures. |
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ART -- Reference. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Abberley, Will, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Underwater worlds. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018 1527513939 (OCoLC)1047549872 |
| ISBN |
9781527525535 (electronic book) |
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1527525538 (electronic book) |
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1527513939 |
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9781527513938 |
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