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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[2014]
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Shipwrecked : |b disaster and transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the modern world / |c James V. Morrison. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a "Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 590 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Shipwrecks in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Disasters in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Shipwreck survival in literature. | |
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| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Morrison, James V. |t Shipwrecked : disaster and transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the modern world. |d Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014] |h viii, 242 pages ; 24 cm |
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