UID:
almahu_9949560310702882
Format:
1 online resource (254 pages)
ISBN:
9780472120062
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0-472-12006-9
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9780472119202
Content:
"Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film"--
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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 outter 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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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-472-11920-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-306-77100-5
Language:
English
