South - Couverture rigide

Coverley, Merlin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1843447258 ISBN 13 : 9781843447252

Editeur : Oldcastle Books Ltd, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

How has the idea of the South come to exert such a powerful hold over our imagination?

Artists and writers from the colder climes of northern Europe have long felt the lure of the South of the continent. Goethe was revitalised by his encounters with Mediterranean culture on his journey to Italy. Nietzsche took flight to the south to begin his life anew. D H Lawrence sought the health-giving southern sun in Sicily and Sardinia.

Over many years, other versions of the South have also held their own fascination. The South Seas cast a spell over writers like Herman Melville and Robert Louis Stevenson, and painters like Paul Gauguin. The American Deep South had (and has) its own, particular literary tradition. The white empty spaces of the frozen South of Antarctica were filled by the fantasies of writers like Edgar Allan Poe and H P Lovecraft. Even London south of the river is a place where novelists like Angela Carter and Michael Moorcock have staked out literary territory.

Moving between geography and mythology, literature and history, this is the first book to look at all things Southern in one volume. It examines the South as a symbol of freedom and escape, the South as the location of Northern visions of Utopia, and the South as the imagined site of decadence, poverty and backwardness. From Tahiti to the streets of Peckham, from Naples to New Orleans, Merlin Coverley's brilliant and wide-ranging study throws light on how and why the idea of the South, in all its forms, has come to exert such a powerful hold on our imaginations.

"Coverley's approach is an enlightening one" - Huffington Post on The Art of Wandering

"It is a short, but valuable, book" - Telegraph on Psychogeography

Revue de presse :

"South takes in an impressive array of artists... [Coverley] comes up with some astute readings of great literature, and has a perceptive eye for how tourism has shaped our understanding of place." - Nick Major, The Herald

"Coverley's approach is an enlightening one" - Huffington Post on The Art of Wandering

"It is a short, but valuable, book" - --Telegraph on Psychogeography

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oldcastle Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1843447258
• ISBN 13: 9781843447252
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256