Literary Beach

Carsten Meiner is Professor of French at the University of Copenhagen. Katrine Helene Andersen is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen.

• List of Contributors1. Carsten Meiner and Katrine Helene Andersen, “Introduction: The Literary Beach: History and Aesthetics of a Modern Topos”2. Knut Ove Eliassen, Topologies of the Beach3. Frits Andersen, The Already Modern Beach. Robert Louis Stevenson’s South Sea Tales4. Christopher Messelt, The Beach and the Modern Norwegian Novel5. Katrine Helene Andersen, Between Topos and Heterotopia. Literary Representations of the Spanish Beach in Works by Carmen Laforet and Juan Goytisolo6. Tore Rye Andersen, Sous la Plage, les Pavés! The Beach between Utopia and Dystopia in Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road7. Christian Dahl, One Place, two Topoi: The Beach in Ancient Greek literature8. Maria Damkjær, Cheapness, Predictability, and Cliché: Beaches in Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals9. Charles Lock, Words on the Beach: Riddles of the Unpainted Shore and the Wrapped Coast10. Morten Chemnitz and Carsten Meiner, The Topological Poetics of the Beach in Marguerite Duras’ L’Amour and L’Été 8011. Pia Schwarz Lausten, The Birth of a Beach Worm. The Beach as a Catalyst for Memories and Reflections on Female Identity in Elena Ferrante’s The Lost DaughterIndex