Shipwrecked : Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World /

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"Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Morrison, James V., 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Shipwrecks in literature.
Disasters in literature.
Shipwreck survival in literature.
Naufrages dans la littérature.
Catastrophes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
PERFORMING ARTS > Television > History & Criticism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Disasters in literature
Shipwreck survival in literature
Shipwrecks in literature
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Shipwreck Narratives
  • 2. Shipwreck and Identity in Homer's Odyssey
  • 3. Shipwreck and Opportunity from Ancient Egypt to the Modern Caribbean
  • 4. The Struggle for Power in Shakespeare's The Tempest
  • 5. Salvation, Power, and Freedom: Saint Paul, Caliban, and Voyages in Outer Space
  • 6. Culture and Spiritual Rebirth in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
  • 7. The Struggle for Survival in Philoctetes, Cast Away, and First on Mars
  • 8. Competing Narratives in Walcott's Pantomime and Coetzee's Foe
  • 9. Conflict, the Common Good, and Redemption in The Mysterious Island, Lord of the Flies, Lost, and Gilligan's Island
  • 10. Shipwreck and the Selling of Paradise.

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