Chrystopher J Spicer
Biographic Data
| ID | 6713257 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chrystopher J Spicer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chrystopher J |
| FAMILY NAME | Spicer |
| SIGNATURE | SPICER C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Cook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1369-4497 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Memory of Love
On a high rise of the Boroondara Cemetery in the Melbourne suburb of Kew stands one of Australia’s most beautiful and unique memorial buildings. There is an intriguing air of mystery about it for the visitor, for no name can be seen anywhere. The light streaming down through the remarkable stained glass dome onto the red-tiled floor reveals only a series of dates, along with verses of praise and lament. However, there was no secret about its prov…
Pandemic, Plague, Pestilence and the Tropics
The Tropics have long been associated with exotic diseases and epidemics. This historical imaginary arose with Aristotle’s notion of the tropics as the ‘torrid zone’, a geographical region virtually uninhabitable to temperate peoples due to the hostility of its climate, and persisted in colonial imaginaries of the tropics as pestilential latitudes requiring slave labour. The tropical sites of colonialism gave rise to urgent studies of tropical di…
Weep for the Coming of Men
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, epidemics ravaged South Pacific islands after contact with Westerners. With no existing immunity to introduced diseases, consequent death tolls on these remote islands were catastrophic. During that period, a succession of significant Anglo-Western writers visited the South Pacific region: Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Becke, Jack London, and Fredrick O’Brien. In a remarkable l…
The Cyclone Which is at the Heart of Things”
In order to better understand and respond to the tropics as part of the global environment, we need to accept the unique features of the regional weather, such as cyclones, and be prepared to embrace their larger meaning for life in the tropics. In a physical landscape impacted by some 207 tropical cyclones since 1858, Queensland writers have attempted to incorporate both the terror and the sublime of the cyclone into their sense of place as they…
Big wind, he waiting there”
Prior to writing his 1947 novel, Cyclone, Queensland author Vance Palmer drafted out many of his ideas for the story in three earlier short stories: ‘Cyclone’(1932), ‘Big Wind,’ and ‘Tempest,’ both published in 1936. In these stories and the later novel, Palmer develops the cyclone as trope of apocalypse, an unveiling and realization of the new inherent within the destruction of the old. As a result of experiencing both the terror and the mystery…
Weep for the Coming of Men
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, epidemics ravaged South Pacific islands after contact with Westerners. With no existing immunity to introduced diseases, consequent death tolls on these remote islands were catastrophic. During that period, a succession of significant Anglo-Western writers visited the South Pacific region: Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Becke, Jack London, and Fredrick O’Brien. In a remarkable l…
The Cyclone Which is at the Heart of Things”
In order to better understand and respond to the tropics as part of the global environment, we need to accept the unique features of the regional weather, such as cyclones, and be prepared to embrace their larger meaning for life in the tropics. In a physical landscape impacted by some 207 tropical cyclones since 1858, Queensland writers have attempted to incorporate both the terror and the sublime of the cyclone into their sense of place as they…
Big wind, he waiting there”
Prior to writing his 1947 novel, Cyclone, Queensland author Vance Palmer drafted out many of his ideas for the story in three earlier short stories: ‘Cyclone’(1932), ‘Big Wind,’ and ‘Tempest,’ both published in 1936. In these stories and the later novel, Palmer develops the cyclone as trope of apocalypse, an unveiling and realization of the new inherent within the destruction of the old. As a result of experiencing both the terror and the mystery…
The Memory of Love
On a high rise of the Boroondara Cemetery in the Melbourne suburb of Kew stands one of Australia’s most beautiful and unique memorial buildings. There is an intriguing air of mystery about it for the visitor, for no name can be seen anywhere. The light streaming down through the remarkable stained glass dome onto the red-tiled floor reveals only a series of dates, along with verses of praise and lament. However, there was no secret about its prov…
Pandemic, Plague, Pestilence and the Tropics
The Tropics have long been associated with exotic diseases and epidemics. This historical imaginary arose with Aristotle’s notion of the tropics as the ‘torrid zone’, a geographical region virtually uninhabitable to temperate peoples due to the hostility of its climate, and persisted in colonial imaginaries of the tropics as pestilential latitudes requiring slave labour. The tropical sites of colonialism gave rise to urgent studies of tropical di…
Weep for the Coming of Men
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, epidemics ravaged South Pacific islands after contact with Westerners. With no existing immunity to introduced diseases, consequent death tolls on these remote islands were catastrophic. During that period, a succession of significant Anglo-Western writers visited the South Pacific region: Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Becke, Jack London, and Fredrick O’Brien. In a remarkable l…
History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Cyclone (programming language (2 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)