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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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2014]
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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 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.