Postmodern Wetlands: Culture, History, Ecology
Swamps and marshes have traditionally been regarded as places of horror and ill health in western culture - places to be feared, drained and filled. In this wide-ranging study, Rod Giblett examines the swamp from a cross-disciplinary standpoint. Using material from fiction, films and popular culture and drawing on literature, cultural studies, philosophy, social theory, critical geography and medical history, he criticises the urge to drain swamps ('the project of modernity') as masculinist and imperialist.
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Postmodern Wetlands: Culture, History, Ecology
Swamps and marshes have traditionally been regarded as places of horror and ill health in western culture - places to be feared, drained and filled. In this wide-ranging study, Rod Giblett examines the swamp from a cross-disciplinary standpoint. Using material from fiction, films and popular culture and drawing on literature, cultural studies, philosophy, social theory, critical geography and medical history, he criticises the urge to drain swamps ('the project of modernity') as masculinist and imperialist.
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Postmodern Wetlands: Culture, History, Ecology

Postmodern Wetlands: Culture, History, Ecology

by Rodney Giblett
Postmodern Wetlands: Culture, History, Ecology

Postmodern Wetlands: Culture, History, Ecology

by Rodney Giblett

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Swamps and marshes have traditionally been regarded as places of horror and ill health in western culture - places to be feared, drained and filled. In this wide-ranging study, Rod Giblett examines the swamp from a cross-disciplinary standpoint. Using material from fiction, films and popular culture and drawing on literature, cultural studies, philosophy, social theory, critical geography and medical history, he criticises the urge to drain swamps ('the project of modernity') as masculinist and imperialist.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780748608447
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 12/01/1996
Series: Postmodern Theory
Edition description: 3RD
Pages: 268
Product dimensions: 5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

ROD GIBLETT is lecturer in cultural studies in the School of Communication and Cultural Studies, Curtin University of Technology, Australia.

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