Shipwrecked : Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World / James V. Morrison.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014Copyright date: ©[2014]Description: 1 online resource (240 pages)Content type:
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  • 9780472120062
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Contents:
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.
Summary: "Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film"-- Provided by publisher
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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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