Shipwrecked : disaster and transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the modern world /

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

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Main Author: Morrison, James V., 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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 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.