Morrison, James V., 1956-

Shipwrecked : Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World / James V. Morrison. - 1 online resource (240 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

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"Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film"--


English.

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Shipwrecks in literature.
Shipwreck survival in literature.
Disasters in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
PERFORMING ARTS--Television--History & Criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Shakespeare.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Ancient & Classical.
Catastrophes dans la litterature.
Naufrages dans la litterature.
Shipwreck survival in literature.
Disasters in literature.
Shipwrecks in literature.


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