Shipwreck Narratives: Out of Our Depth - Couverture rigide

Titlestad, Michael

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ISBN 10 : 3030870405 ISBN 13 : 9783030870409

Editeur : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2021

Synopsis

Shipwreck Narratives: Out of Our Depth studies both the representation of shipwreck and the ways in which shipwrecks are used in creative, philosophical, and political works. The first part of the book examines historical shipwreck narratives published over a period of two centuries and their legacies. Michael Titlestad points to a range of narrative conventions, literary tropes and questions concerning representation and its limits in narratives about these historic shipwrecks. The second part engages novels, poems, films, artwork, and musical composition that grapple with shipwreck. Collectively the chapters suggest the spectacular productivity of shipwreck narrative; the multiple ways in which its concerns and logic have inspired anxious creativity in the last century. Titlestad recognizes in weaving in his personal experience that shipwreck--the destruction of form and the advent of disorder--could be seen not only as a corollary for his own neurological disorder, but alsoan abiding principle in tropology. This book describes how shipwreck has figured in texts (from historical narratives to fiction, film and music) as an analogue for emotional, psychological, and physical fragmentation.

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À propos de l'auteur

Michael Titlestad is Personal Professor in the Department of English, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He has published widely in the fields of South African literature, apocalypticism, whiteness and jazz. He is the author of Making the Changes: Jazz in South African Literature and Reportage and is the co-editor (with David Watson) of The Ongoing End: The Limits of Apocalyptic Narrative. He is also the editor of English Studies in Africa, the most widely read literary studies journal in South Africa.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3030870405
• ISBN 13: 9783030870409
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 245
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