Shipwrecked
Subtitle: disaster and transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the modern world
By: James V. Morrison
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780472119202; 9780472120062
Subjects: Shipwrecks in literature; Disasters in literature; Shipwreck survival in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical; LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism
Description: "Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Shipwreck narratives; title: 2. Shipwreck and identity in Homer's Odyssey; title: 3. Shipwreck and opportunity from Ancient Egypt to the modern Caribbean; title: 4. The struggle for power in Shakespeare's The Tempest; title: 5. Salvation, power, and freedom: Saint Paul, caliban, and voyages in outter space; title: 6. Culture and spiritual rebirth in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe; title: 7. The struggle for survival in Philoctetes, Cast Away, and First on Mars; title: 8. Competing narratives in Walcott's Pantomime and Coetzee's Foe; title: 9. Conflict, the common good, and redemption in The Mysterious Island, Lord of the Flies, Lost, and Gilligan's Island; title: 10. Shipwreck and the selling of paradise.