From One Shore to Another

The essays collected in this book-a selection of papers presented at the conference "The Sea, The Land, The Bridge: Histories of Communication" held at the University of Prince Edward Island (Canada) in August 2005--combine various approaches, covering literary, social, philosophical and anthropological fields, in exploring the theme of the bridge. Each essay is concerned Other one possible definition of the bridge as a connection between shores, countries, languages, cultures, people or commu ...