The following is a bibliography
of scholarly articles and books, written in or translated into English,
dealing with the Antarctica within a cultural or literary studies
framework. The list does not include papers containing scientific,
economic, environmental or political analysis of Antarctica or Antarctic
issues.
Bell, Allan. "Poles
Apart: Globalization and the Development of News Discourse Across
the Twentieth Century." New Media Language. Ed. Jean
Aitchison and Diana Lewis. London: Routledge, 2003. 7-17.
Bentley, Christopher. "The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins." Australian Literary Studies 9. 422-25.
Bloom, Lisa. Gender
on Ice: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions. Minneapolis:
U of Minnesota P, 1993.
---. "Science
and Writing: Two National Narratives of Failure." Inscribing
Science: Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication. Ed.
Timothy Lenoir. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1998. 328-50.
Blyth, J.D.M.
"The Polar Regions in Literature." British Book News 174 (1955).
789-93.
Brazzelli, Nicoletta. "Mapping the White Unknown: The Antarctic Ice in the Journals of Scott's Last Expedition." Textus VXIII (2005). 297-312.
Brown, N., et
al. Southern Convergence: Antarctic Art. Wellington: Pemmican, 2000.
Bryson, Michael.
"Antarctic Interfaces: Science, Human Subjectivity, and the
Case of Richard E. Byrd." Science as Culture 5.3(24)
(1996). 431-58.
Burns,
Robin. "Stories about Place: The Antarctic as an International Reserve
for Science." Imagined Places: the Politics of Making Space.
Ed. Christopher Houston, Fuyuki Kurasawa and Amanda Watson. Bundoora,
Victoria: School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe
U, 1998. 159-68.
Caesar, Adrian. "Grey Areas in 'The White'." Meanjin 61.1 (2002). 98-103.
Clavier,
Berndt. "'The World is Closer Than You Think': Travel, Antarctica
and the marketing of British Airways." Text and Nation:
Essays on Post-Colonial Cultural Politics. Studies in Literature
and Culture 10. Ed. Andrew Blake and Jopi Nyman. Joensuu:
U of Joensuu, 2001. 29-53.
Codling, Rosamund.
"Polar Theatre: Two Victorian Plays." Polar Record
23.142 (1986). 67-68.
Collis, Christy."Australia's Antarctic Turf." M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture (2004). 29 Sep. 2008 <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0403/02-feature-australia.php>.
---.
"Mawson's Hut: Emptying Post-Colonial Antarctica." Journal of
Australian Studies 63 (1999). 22-29.
Cordes, Fauno. "A
Bibliographical Tour of Antarctic Fiction." Antiquarian
Bookman 21 Nov. 1988. 2029-36.
---. '"Tekeli-li"
or Hollow Earth Lives: A Bibliography of Antarctic Fiction.' 2001.
The Antarctic Circle. Co-ordinator Robert B. Stephensen. 26 July
2005. <www.antarctic-circle.org/fauno.htm>.[Online
bibliography, updated regularly.]
Dameron, J.
Lasley. "Poe's Pym and Scoresby on Polar Cataracts." Resources
for American Literary Study 21.1 (1995). 258-60.
Dixon, Robert. "Travelling Mass-Media Circus: Frank Hurley's Synchronized Lecture Entertainments." Nineteenth Century Theatre & Film 33.1 (2006). 60-87.
---. "Pictures
at an Exhibition: Frank Hurley's In the Grip of the Polar Pack
Ice (1919)." Journal of Australian Studies 78 (2003). 123-37.
Dodds, Klaus
J. "Antarctica
and the Modern Geographical Imagination." Polar Record 33.184
(1997). 47-62.
---. "Screening Antarctica: Britain, the Falkland Islands Dependencies
Survey, and Scott of the Antarctic." Polar Record 38.204 (2002). 1-10.
---. "Settlement and Unsettlement in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Antarctica." Polar Record 41.217 (2005). 141-55.
---. "Post-colonial Antarctica: An Emerging Engagement." Polar Record 42.220 (2006). 59-70.
Eckhardt, Jason
C. "Behind the Mountains of Madness: Lovecraft and the Antarctic
in 1930." Lovecraft Studies 14 (Spring 1987). 31-38.
Farley, Rebecca. "‘By Endurance We Conquer’: Ernest Shackleton and Performances of White Male Hegemony." International Journal of Cultural Studies 8.2 (2005). 231-54.
Glasberg, Elena. "Camera Artists in Antarctica." Photomedia (New Zealand Journal of Photography) 65 (2007). 21-23.
---.
"Refusing History at the End of the Earth: Ursula Le Guin's 'Sur'
and the 2000-01 Women's Antarctic Crossing." Tulsa Studies
in Women's Literature 21.1 (2002). 99-121.
Godwin, Joscelyn.
Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism and Nazi Survival.
Grand Rapids, MI: Phanes Press, 1993.
Hains, Brigid.
"The Graveyard of a Century." Words for Country: Landscape
and Language in Australia. Ed. Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths.
Sydney: U of New South Wales P, 2002.
---. The Ice
and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn, and the Myth of the Frontier.
Carlton South, Victoria: Melbourne UP, 2002.
Higginson,
Ian N. "The First Antarctic Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe." Polar Record
30.125 (1994). 287-98.
Jerram, Sophie. "Claims on Beauty." Photomedia (New Zealand Journal of Photography) 65 (2007). 8-20.
Karamanski,
Theodore J. "The Heroic Ideal: Romantic Literature and the British
Exploration of the Antarctic, 1901–1914." Fram: The Journal
of Polar Studies 1.2 (1984). 461-69.
Katz, Cindi
and Andrew Kirby. "In the Nature of Things: The Environment
and Everyday Life." Transactions of the Institute of British
Geographers 16.3 (1991). 259-71.
Kelly, Aimee. "Frank Hurley: Creator of Heroic Age Photography." Photomedia (New Zealand Journal of Photography) 65 (2007). 27.
Kenneally, Thomas.
"Origin of a Novel." Hemisphere 13.10 (Oct. 1969). 9-13.
Kime, Wayne R. "The American Antecedents of James De Mille's
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder."
Dalhousie Review 55 (1975–76). 280-306.
Krapp, Peter. "Notes on Polar Media." Octopus 2 (Fall 2006). 11-20.
Kriwoken, Lorne K. and John W. Willamson. "Hobart, Tasmania: Antarctic
and Southern Ocean Connections." Polar Record 29.169 (1993).
93-102. [Some brief
mention of early literary works about Antarctica.]
Lamont-Stewart,
Linda. "Rescued by Postmodernism: The Escalating Value of James
Dr Mille's 'A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder'."
Canadian Literature 145 (Summer 1995). 21-36.
Lang, Hans-Joachim and Benjamin Lease. "The Authorship of Symzonia:
The Case for Nathaniel Ames." The New England Quarterly
48.2 (June 1975). 241-52.
Le Guin, Ursula
K. "Heroes." Dancing at the Edge of the World. New
York: Grove, 1989. 171-75.
Leane, Elizabeth.
"The Adelie Blizzard: Neglected Newspaper of the Australasian
Antarctic Expedition (1911–1914)." Polar Record
41.1 (Jan. 2005). 11-20.
---. "Antarctic Travel Writing and the Problematics of the Pristine: Two Australian Novelists' Narratives of Tourist Voyages to Antarctica." Imaging Nature: Media, Environment and Tourism. Proceedings of conference held on 27-29 June 2004 at Cradle Mountain, Tasmania, Australia. Ed. Libby Lester and Claire Ellis. July 2005. <http://www.utas.edu.au/arts/imaging/leane.html>.
---. "Antarctica as a Scientific Utopia." Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 89 (Autumn 2003).
27-35.
---. "Antarctic
Theatricals: The Frozen Farce of Scott’s First Expedition."
Theatre Notebook: A Journal of the History and Technique of the
British Theatre 57 (2003). 143-57.
---. "Locating
the Thing: The Antarctic as Alien Space in John W. Campbell’s
'Who Goes There?'" Science Fiction Studies
32.2 (2005). 225-39.
---. "Polar
Newspapers as Colonising Fictions: The Frontier Journalism of the
Australasian Antarctic Expedition." new literatures review
42 (2005). 24-43.
---. "Romancing
the Pole: A Survey of Nineteenth-Century Antarctic Utopias."
ACH: The Journal of the History of Culture in Australia 23
(2004). 161-84.
Leane, Elizabeth
and Stephanie Pfennigwerth. “Antarctica in the Australian Imagination.”
Polar Record 38 (2002). 309-12.
Legler,
Gretchen. "The Sky, The Earth, The Sea, The Soul." Eco-Man:
New Perspectives on Masculinity and Nature. Ed. Mark Allister.
Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2004. 28-40.
Lenz, William
E. "Poe's
Arthur Gordon Pym and the Narrative Techniques of Antarctic Gothic." The CEA Critic 53.3 (1991). 30-38.
---. The Poetics of the Antarctic: A Study in Nineteenth-Century
American Cultural Perceptions. New York: Garland, 1995.
Lowes, John
Livingston. The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination.
1927. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. [This book traces the origins of Coleridge's poem "The Rime
of the Ancient Mariner".]
Lucas, Rose.
"Ancient Continents: A Poetics of Place in Dorothy Porter's
'Auroral Corona with Two Figures.'" Southern Review
30.2 (1997). 159-69.
McCredie, Athol. "Joyce Campbell: Last Light: A Daguerreotypist in Antarctica." Photomedia (New Zealand Journal of Photography) 65 (2007). 24-25.
McInherny, Frances. "Thomas Keneally's 'Innocent' Men." Australian Literary Studies 10.1 (May 1981). 57-66.
Manhire, Bill. "Tourism Benefits from a Personal Creative Perspective."
Antarctic Tourism. Proc. of the Antarctic Tourism Workshop,
Christchurch New Zealand. Christchurch: Antarctica New Zealand,
2000. 31-36.
---,
ed. The Wide White Page: Writers Imagine Antarctica. Wellington:
Victoria UP, 2004.
Marx, Friedhelm.
"'The Gateway of Mystery': The South Pole in Literature."
Im Eismeer: Ice-Covered Sea. Trans. Joseph Swann. Munich:
Verlag Silke Schreiber, 1995. 107-09.
Maver, Igor. "Mapping the Unknown: Australian Mythical Landscape in Douglas Stewart's 'Voyager' Poems." Australia's Changing Landscapes: Proceedings of the Second EASA Conference, Sitges, Barcelona, October 1993. Ed. Susan Ballyn et al. Barcelona: U of Barcelona, 1995. 139-44.
Mawer, G.A. "Baptism of Ice: J. G. Bartholomew and the Naming of Antarctica." Polar Record 44.2 (2008). 180-83.
Milburn, Felicity. "Raewyn Atkinson's Designs on Antarctica." Ceramics: Art and Perception 63 (2006). 37-39.
Mills, William.
"Polar Libraries." International Dictionary of Library
Histories. Ed. David H. Stam. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. 134-36.
Milnes, Julian.
"Colonialist Discourse, Lord Featherstone's Yawn and the Significance
of the Denouement in 'A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder.'"
Canadian Literature 145 (Summer 1995). 84-104.
Mitsi, Efterpi. "Antarctic Utopias: Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and the Exploration of the South Pole." Parousia 9. 245-55.
Montgomery, Kate. "Two Journeys South." Photomedia (New Zealand Journal of Photography) 65 (2007). 28-29.
Morrow, Patrick
D. "Coda: 'But Everyone has an Antarctic.'" Postcolonial
Essays on South Pacific Literature. Ed. Patrick D. Morrow.
Lewiston, NY: Edwin D. Mellen, 1998. 147-51.
Moss, Sarah.
Scott's Last Biscuit: the Literature of Polar Exploration. Oxford:
Signal, 2006.
Moylan, Tom.
'"The moment is here ... and it's important": State, Agency,
and Dystopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Antarctica and Ursula
K. Le Guin's The Telling.' Dark Horizons: Science Fiction
and the Dystopian Imagination. Ed. Raffaella Baccolini and
Tom Moylan. New York: Routledge, 2003. 135-53.
Mulligan, Maureen.
"New Directions or the End of the Road? Women's Travel Writing
at the Millennium." Journal of English Studies 2 (2000).
61-78.
Multineddu,
Flavio. "A Tendentious Game with an Uncanny Riddle: 'A Strange
Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder.'" Canadian Literature
145 (Summer 1995). 62-81.
Murray, Carl. "Mapping Terra Incognita." Polar Record 41.217 (2005). 103-12.
Neel, Alexandra. "The Photography of Antarctica: Virginia Woolf's Letters of Discovery." Woolf and the Art of Exploration: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon 9–12 June 2005. Eds. Helen Southworth and Elisa Kay Sparks. Clemson, SC: Clemson U Digital P, 2006. 203-11.
Nelson, Victoria.
"Symmes Hole, or the South Polar Romance." Raritan: A Quarterly
Review. 17.2 (1997). 136-66. [A
revised version of this article appears as ch. 6 of Nelson's monograph
The Secret LIfe of Puppets (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2001).]
Noble, Anne, and Deirdra Sullivan. "Antarctica: Terra Incognita." Photomedia (New Zealand Journal of Photography) 65 (2007). 4.
Parks, Malcolm.
"Editor's Introduction and Explanatory Notes." de Mille,
James. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder. 1888.
Ed. Malcolm Parks. Ottowa: Carleton UP, 1986. xvii-lxi;
271-313.
Pearson, Michael.
"'No Joke in Petticoats': British Polar Expeditions and Their
Theatrical Presentations." The Drama Review 48.1 (T181)
(2004). 44-59.
Pegg,
Barry. "Nature and Nation in Popular Scientific Narratives of Polar
Exploration." The Literature of Science: Perspectives on Popular
Science Writing. Ed. Murdo William McRae. Athens, Georgia: U of
Georgia P, 1993. 213-29.
Pierce, Peter.
"'Antarcticide': The Survivor and A Victim of the Aurora."
Australian Melodramas: Thomas Keneally's Fiction. St Lucia,
Queensland: U of Queensland P, 1995. 108-31.
Piggott, Jan.
"'A
Man of Action, and yet a Man of Books': Shackleton as Reader,
Writer and Editor." Shackleton: The Antarctic and Endurance. Ed. Jan Piggott. London: Dulwich College, 2000. 39-48.
---. "Shackleton,
Reader and Writer." James Caird Society Journal 1, 2003.
39-51.
---. "Shackleton's Men: Life on Elephant Island." James Caird
Society Journal 2 (Nov. 2004). 10-18.
Pringle, Trevor.
"Cold Comfort: The Polar Landscape in English and American Popular
Culture 1845–1990." Landscape Research 16.2 (1991).
43-48.
Rahmstorf, Stefan. "Hooray for Hollywood." New Scientist 2449 (2004). 18.
Ramsey, Jarold.
"'The Waste Land' and Shackleton on South Georgia." English
Language Notes 8 (1970). 42-45.
Remshardt, Ralf.
"Conquering the South Pole and Other Places in Germany: Manfred
Karge's Plays." Essays on Twentieth-Century German Drama
and Theater. Ed. Hellmut Hal Rennert. New York: Peter Lang,
2004. 312-321.
Riffenburgh,
Beau. "Jules Verne and the Conquest of the Polar Regions." Polar
Record 27.162 (1991). 237-40.
Rosner, Victoria.
"Gender Degree Zero: Memoirs of Frozen Time in Antarctica."
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 14.1 (1999). 5-22.
Ryan,
J.S. "Antarctic Hoosh—the Genesis of a Keneally
Novel." Diss. U of Cambridge, 1989.
Savours, Ann.
"Hobart and the Polar Regions, 1830–1930." Tasmanian Insights:
Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Thomas Stilwell. Hobart: State
Library of Tasmania, 1992. 175-91. [Some
brief mention of early literary works about Antarctica.]
Sayle, L. Jane. "The Groke." Photomedia (New Zealand Journal of Photography) 65 (2007). 5-7.
Simpson-Housley,
P. Antarctica:
Exploration, Perception, Metaphor. London: Routledge, 1992.
---. Cain's Land: Literature and Mythology of the Polar Regions. North York, Ontario: Captus Press, 1999.
Simpson-Housley,
Paul and Jamie S. Scott. "Poles Apart? The Terra Nova and Fram
Antarctic Expeditions and Judeo-Christian Attitudes Towards Nature."
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 18.3
(1993). 395-400.
Siskind, Mariano. "Captain Cook and the Discovery of Antarctica's Modern Specificity: Towards a Critique of Globalization." Comparative Literature Studies 42.1 (2005). 1-23.
Smith, Bernard. "Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Cook's Second
Voyage." Imagining the Pacific: In the Wake of Cook's Voyages.
Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne UP, 1992. 135-71.
Spencer, Brenda. "Demythologising Imperial History: A Study of Trevor Griffiths's Judgement Over the Dead and Howard Brenton's Scott of the Antarctic." The English Academy Review 8 (December 1991). 35-46.
Spufford, Francis. "On Observation Hill." Granta 67 (1999). 241-53.
---. I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination. London:
Faber and Faber, 1996.
Stam, David H.
and Deidre C. Stam. Books on Ice: British and American Literature of Polar Exploration. New York: The Grolier Club, 2005.
---. "Silent Friends–Books and Reading on Polar
Expeditions." Poles Apart–Poles On-Line: Proceedings
of the 19th Polar Libraries Colloquy, 17-21 June 2002, Copenhagen.
Ed. Kirsten Caning and Vibeke Sloth Jakobsen. Copenhagen: Danish Polar
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Standish, David. Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2006.
Stevens, Quentin. "Metropolis on Ice: A Colonial Settlement in Antarctica." The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the Twenty-First Century. Eds. Howard McNaughton and Adam Lam. Christchurch: Canterbury UP, 2006. 32-45.
Summerhayes, Colin. "Hitler's Antarctic Base: The Myth and the Reality." Polar Record 43.224 (2007). 1-21.
Taylor, John Alfred.
"Nothing Like a Sequel: Lovecraft, Poe, and the Antarctic."
Topic: A Journal of the Liberal Arts 50 (2000). 40-47.
Tew, Philip. "Jenny Diski's Millennial Imagination 1997-2004." British Fiction Today. Ed. Philip Tew, Rod Mengham. London, New York: Continuum, 2006. 67-77.
Tracy,
Elle. "The Southern End of the Earth: Antarctic Literature." Literature
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D. Murphy. Chicago: Fitzroy
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Tuan, Yi-Fu. "Desert
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and the Arts. Ed. Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell. Cambridge: Cambridge
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Turner, John. "'Reducing Down': D H Lawrence and Captain Scott."
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Voermans,
Paul. "Scripts Deep Enough: Kim Stanley Robinson's Antarctica."
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Wilson, Eric G.
"Polar Apocalypse in Coleridge and Poe." Wordsworth Circle 35.1 (2004). 37-44.
---. The Spiritual
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---. "Earthly
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