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.
Open Access
"Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film"--
English.
9780472120062
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.