Islandology - by Marc Shell (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across the islandologies of different cultures and argues for a world of islands.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>A fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across the "islandologies" of different cultures and argues for a world of islands.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Islandology</i> is a compendium, a word and image album, a guide bleu, and a piece of theory all rolled into one. In its dense and playful disposition of islandological lexemes, examples, paradigms, facts, language games, the book is a voracious post modernist cosmography. Shell, a cosmographer for the Internet era, exposes a poignant transcendental restlessness in his conceptual and literary mappings of the island in the imaginary of modernity. Such a generous study in critical topography belongs alongside Lefebvre, Serres and Yi-Fu Tuan in creating new horizons for the study of place and landscape across many fields and disciplines.--Jonathan Bordo<br><br><i>Islandology</i> is one of the most remarkable books you will read in a long time and is thoroughly recommended to all who wish to inquire into how geography is enmeshed in the human imagination--Robert J. Mayhew "<i>Journal of Historical Geography</i>"<br><br><i>Islandology</i> is one of those rare works that perfectly reflects its object of study. Instead of being a contribution to a particular field of research, it is an island of scholarship that allows us to chart submerged connections among such fields as cultural geography, literary analysis, and socio-political inquiry.--Peter Fenves<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Marc Shell, a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow, is the Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Harvard University, where he is also a professor in the graduate program in History of American Civilization. He is the author of a number of books. These include three influential studies of the relations between linguistic and literary economies: <i>The Economy of Literature</i> (1978), <i>Money, Language, and Thought</i> (1982), and <i>Art and Money</i> (1995) as well as books on nationalism, kinship, and multilingualism, such as <i>The End of Kinship</i> (1986) and <i>American Babel</i> (2002), and on disability, including the recent titles, <i>Polio and Its Aftermath</i> (2005) and <i>Stutter</i> (2006). A Canadian citizen, Shell has long been interested in the relations between Canada and the United States. With his wife, Professor Susan Shell, he co-directs The Seven Days Work Educational Foundation, Grand Manan Island, Canada, which sponsors conferences and educational outreach programs in the greater Gulf of Maine region in both countries.
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