Shipwrecked : disaster and transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the modern world / / James V. Morrison

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910524655703321
• Autore: Morrison James V. <1956->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ann Arbor : , : The University of Michigan Press, , [2014]
• ISBN: 9780472120062; 0-472-12006-9; 9780472119202
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 pages)
• Classificazione: LIT004190LIT015000LIT004120PER010030
• Disciplina: 809/.93355
• Soggetti: Shipwrecks in literature; Disasters in literature; Shipwreck survival in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film"--