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Title Defining and redefining space in the English-speaking world : contacts, frictions, clashes / edited by Fanny Moghaddassi, Ghislain Potriquet and Anne Bandry-Scubbi
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 294 pages)
Contents Foreword; Mapping Contacts, Frictions, Clashes; Les noms de lieux de Miami en deux temps, trois mouvements; Conflict or Entanglement? The Case of the Modoc War on the Oregon-California Border; The Coral Island; In at a Roche the Levedis Rideth; Experiencing Contacts, Frictions, Clashes; "A passionate eloquence of the body"; Zora Neale Hurston au contact du folklore; La Perfection dans la distorsion; Les Heurts du coeur; Redefining Spaces of Contact, Frictions, Clashes; Conflict, Friction and Contact in Medieval Oxford; ""There are professors and professors."
Oblitérations, contacts et frictions dans A Humument de Tom PhillipsThe Revenger's Tragedy (1607); Contact Incarnate and Touching Fiction in Sterne and Sterneana; Chalk and Cheese; Vying for Space and Influence; Tragedy and Metatheatre, Media Archaeology and Spectatorship in Pasolini's and the Wooster Group's Visions of Shakespeare; Contacts, frictions et heurts culturels, génériques et esthétiques dans Anna Nicole (2011) de Mark-Anthony Turnage et Richard Thomas; Le procès de Scottsboro (1931-1932); La Grande-Bretagne contre l'Allemagne
Le renseignement dans l'espace démocratique américain depuis le 11-septembreA Round-Robin Discussion on Contact Improvisation; List of Contributors; Index
Summary Contacts, on the individual and institutional levels and in the political and aesthetic spheres, lead to redefinitions of existing identities through frictions and, sometimes, clashes. Focusing on the material conditions of such contacts, frictions, and clashes, this volume particularly explores their essentially spatial nature, highlighting the stakes of such definitions and redefinitions of space. Efforts at defining and mapping spaces, physical experiences of contacts, frictions and clashes, tensions between different groups or genres and literary or political competition for space and infl
Notes "The present volume . developed out of a conference held at the University of Strasbourg in October 2014."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Essays in English and French
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Subject Space -- Social aspects -- English-speaking countries -- Congresses
Spatial behavior -- English-speaking countries -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Spatial behavior
English-speaking countries
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Moghaddassi, Fanny, editor.
Potriquet, Ghislain, editor
Bandry-Scubbi, Anne, editor.
ISBN 9781443847056
1443847054