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Shipwrecked : disaster and transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the modern world
- Title
- Shipwrecked : disaster and transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the modern world / James V. Morrison.
- Author
- Morrison, James V., 1956-
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]
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Details
- Description
- viii, 242 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Shipwreck natives -- Shipwreck and identity in Homer's Odyssey -- Shipwreck and opportunity from Ancient Egypt to the modern Caribbean -- The struggle for power in Shakespeare's The Tempest -- Salvation, power, and freedom: Saint Paul, Caliban, and voyages in outer space -- Culture and spiritual rebirth in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe -- The struggle for survival in Philoctetes, Cast Away, and First on Mars -- Competing narratives in Walcott's Pantomime and Coetzee's Foe -- Conflict, the common good, and redemption in The Mysterious Land, Lord of the Flies, Lost, and Gilligan's Island -- Shipwreck and the selling of paradise.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-5105
- ISBN
- 9780472119202 (hardback)
- 0472119206 (hardback)
- 9780472120062 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013045746
- OCLC
- 844308454
- Author
- Morrison, James V., 1956- author.
- Title
- Shipwrecked : disaster and transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the modern world / James V. Morrison.
- Publisher
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-5105