LEADER 03785nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910781762503321 005 20230725051126.0 010 $a1-283-25049-7 010 $a9786613250490 010 $a94-012-0079-3 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401200790 035 $a(CKB)2550000000045942 035 $a(OCoLC)759006642 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10496800 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000552044 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12204535 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000552044 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10538111 035 $a(PQKB)10796546 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3008278 035 $a(OCoLC)752320526$z(OCoLC)842898178$z(OCoLC)977965067 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401200790 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3008278 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10496800 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL325049 035 $a(OCoLC)923621942 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000045942 100 $a20111011d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSeaing through the past$b[electronic resource] $epostmodern histories and the maritime metaphor in contemporary anglophone fiction /$fJoanna Rostek 210 $aAmsterdam $cEditions Rodopi$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (358 p.) 225 1 $aPostmodern studies ;$v47 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a90-420-3381-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- New Histories ? Old Metaphor -- Wavering Biographies: Remembering Individual Histories -- Salvaging the Self: Narratives of Personal Trauma -- Influential Sources: Discourses of Origin and the Politics of Power -- Reclaiming the Drowned: Post/Colonial Histories -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Works Cited -- Index. 330 $aFrom Daniel Defoe to Joseph Conrad, from Virginia Woolf to Derek Walcott, the sea has always been an inspiring setting and a powerful symbol for generations of British and Anglophone writers. Seaing through the Past is the first study to explicitly address the enduring relevance of the maritime metaphor in contemporary Anglophone fiction through in-depth readings of fourteen influential and acclaimed novels published in the course of the last three decades. The book trenchantly argues that in contemporary fiction, maritime imagery gives expression to postmodernism?s troubled relationship with historical knowledge, as theorised by Hayden White, Linda Hutcheon, and others. The texts in question are interpreted against the backdrop of four aspects of metahistorical problematisation. Thus, among others, Iris Murdoch?s The Sea, the Sea (1978) is read in the context of auto/biographical writing, John Banville?s The Sea (2005) as a narrative of personal trauma, Julian Barnes?s A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (1989) as investigating the connection between discourses of origin and the politics of power, and Fred D?Aguiar?s Feeding the Ghosts (1997) as opening up a postcolonial perspective on the sea and history. Persuasive and topical, Seaing through the Past offers a compelling guide to the literary oceans of today. 410 0$aPostmodern studies ;$v47. 606 $aSea in literature 606 $aPostmodernism (Literature) 606 $aSeafaring life in literature 615 0$aSea in literature. 615 0$aPostmodernism (Literature) 615 0$aSeafaring life in literature. 676 $a809/.9332162 700 $aRostek$b Joanna$01509347 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781762503321 996 $aSeaing through the past$93741161 997 $aUNINA