Shipwreck in art and literature : images and interpretations from antiquity to the present day /
"Tales of shipwreck have always fascinated audiences, and as a result there is a rich literature of suffering at sea, and an equally rich tradition of visual art depicting this theme. Exploring the shifting semiotics and symbolism of shipwreck, the interdisciplinary essays in this volume provid...
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New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2014.
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| Series: | Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction / Carl Thompson
- The capsized self : sea navigation, shipwrecks and escapes from drowning in southern Buddhist narrative and art / Sarah Shaw
- 'Describe nunc tempestatem' : sea storm and shipwreck type scenes in ancient literature / Boris Dunsch
- The sunken voice : depth and submersion in two early modern Portuguese accounts of maritime peril / Josiah Blackmore
- God's storms : shipwreck and the meanings of ocean in early modern England and America / Steve Mentz
- Shipwrecks and foraging of teh commercial nation : the 1786 wreck of the Halsewell / Carl Thompson
- Shipwreck in French and British visual art, 1700-1842 : Vernet, Northcote, Gericault, and Turner / Christine Riding
- Shipwrecks on the streets : maritime disaster and the broadside ballad tradition in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland / Kirsty Reed
- What lies beneath : the submarine shipwreck in Anglo-American culture, 1880-1920 / Stephen Donovan
- Molly Brown and the Titanic : the shipwrecked woman in U.S. culture / Robin Miskolcze
- Shipwrecking the world's 'wretched refuse' : spectres of neocolonial exclusion in Carl de Souza's Ceux qu'on jette a la mer and Charles Masson's Droit du sol / Veronique Bragard
- Wrecked in the shallows : Yann Martel's Life of Pi / Michael Titlestad
- Salvaging a romantic trope : the conceptual resurrection of shipwreck in recent art practice / Emma Cocker
- Bibliography
- List of contributors
- Index.