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This 1998 book examines a range of nineteenth-century European accounts from the Pacific, depicting Polynesian responses to imported metropolitan culture, in particular its technologies of writing and print. Texts designed to present self-affirming images of 'native' wonderment at European culture in fact betray the emergence of more complex modes of appropriation and interrogation by the Pacific peoples. Vanessa Smith argues that the Pacific islanders called into question the material basis and symbolic capacities of writing, even as they were first being framed in written representations. Examining accounts by beachcombers and missionaries, she suggests that complex modes of self-authorization informed the transmission of new cultural practices to the Pacific peoples. This shift of attention towards reception and appropriation provides the context for a detailed discussion of Robert Louis Stevenson's late Pacific writings.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Plný název: Literary Culture and the Pacific
• Podnázev: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters
• Autor: Vanessa Smith
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 316
• EAN: 9780521022989
• ISBN: 0521022983
• ID: 02018347
• Nakladatelství: Cambridge University Press
• Hmotnost: 485 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 154 × 29 mm
• Datum vydání: 17. November 2005

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