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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| Formato: | Recurso Eletrônico livro eletrônico |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Ann Arbor :
The University of Michigan Press,
[2014]
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| Acesso em linha: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Sumário:
- 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.