Overview: Approaches tropical weather through an international array of contributors based in Japan, Australia, USA, Canada, and the UK.Offers a wealth of source material including plays, novels, oral stories, .This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which writers have imagined cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons, collectively understood as “tropical weather.” Historically, literature has drawn upon the natural world for its store of symbolic language and technical device, making use of violent storms in the form of plot, drama, trope, and image in order to highlight their rela
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