Shipwrecked : disaster and transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the modern world / James V. Morrison.
Publisher: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]Copyright date: copy©2014Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780472119202 (hardback : acid-free)
- 9780472120062 (e-book)
- 809/.93355 23
- PN56.S54 M67 2014eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 outter 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.
"Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film"-- Provided by publisher.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.