Shipwrecked : disaster and transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the modern world / / James V. Morrison
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| Autore: |
Morrison James V. <1956->
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| Titolo: |
Shipwrecked : disaster and transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the modern world / / James V. Morrison
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| Pubblicazione: | Ann Arbor : , : The University of Michigan Press, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (254 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 809/.93355 |
| Soggetto topico: | Shipwrecks in literature |
| Disasters in literature | |
| Shipwreck survival in literature | |
| Classificazione: | LIT004190LIT015000LIT004120PER010030 |
| 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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Shipwrecked |
| ISBN: | 9780472120062 |
| 0-472-12006-9 | |
| 9780472119202 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910524655703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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