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Pirates in history and popular culture /
"This collection of new essays covers the myriad portrayals of the figure of the pirate in historical records, literary narratives, films, television series, opera, anime and games. Contributors explore the nuances of both real and fictional pirates, giving attention to renowned works such as R...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I: Pirates in History; Historical and Fictional Pirates: A Review (Antonio Sanna); Piratical Societies as the Blueprint for Social Utopia (Clint Jones); A Pirate Business Model (Christopher Ketcham); Swashbuckling Sexuality: The Problem with Queer Pirates (Nick Marsellas); "The Boy-Sublime": Sir Lionel Lindsay and Piracy (Jayson Althofer and Brian Musgrove); Part II: Pirates in Literature; Sea-Wolves, Smugglers and Seascapes Captain Cruel Coppinger and Criminality in Cornwall (Joan Passey)
- Piratical Identity, Antarctic Solitude and Stolen Treasure in The Frozen Pirate (Minke Jonk)Pirates and Orphans in Literature: From Victorian Boys' Books to James Barrie's Peter Pan (Eurydice Da Silva); Really Romantic? Pirates in Romantic Fiction (Racheal Harris); "Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum": Representations of Drunkenness in Literary and Cinematic Narratives on Pirates (Antonio Sanna); Part III: Pirates in Cinema and on TV; The Image of the Pirate in Adaptations of The Adventures of Tintin (Michael Charlton)
- Masculine Ideal/Cultural Treasure: Long John Silver in Treasure Planet (Sue Matheson)"What would the world be like without Captain Hook?": A Freudian Analysis of Our Love for (Anti- )Villains (Tiago A.M. Sarmento); "Take what you can ... ": Disney's Jack Sparrow and His Indebtedness to the Pirate Genre (Susanne Zhanial); Civilization's Monsters: The Doomed Queer Anti-Imperialism of Black Sails (Jessica Walker); Part IV: Pirates in Other Media; The Servant, the Sinner and the Savior: The Pirate in Early Nineteenth Century Italian Opera (Alexandra V. Leonzini)
- The Humorous, Sarcastic Case of the Pastafarian Pirates (Jeff Parish)"Gay and brisk": Constructing a Pirate's Image for Children (William Newton); Being a Pirate: The Use and Purpose of a Piratical Setting in Rum & Bones (Nicholas Moll); Pirate as Homo Ludens: Analyzing the Humorous Outlaw at Play in One Piece (Artur Skweres); About the Contributors; Index