Shipwreck narratives : out of our depth / Michael Titlestad.
Titlestad, Michael Frank, author.
2021
PN56.S54 T58 2021
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Title Shipwreck narratives : out of our depth / Michael Titlestad.
Author Titlestad, Michael Frank, author.
ISBN 9783030870416 (electronic bk.)
3030870413 (electronic bk.)
3030870405
9783030870409
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87041-6
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-87041-6 doi
Call Number PN56.S54 T58 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.93355
Summary 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 also an 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Maritime literature and culture.
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1. Introduction
Part I. Historical Narratives
2. An Incidental Dystopia: The Wreck of the Batavia (1629)
3. Captain of a Shipwreck: The Wreck of the Wager (1741)
4. The Limits of the Law: The Wreck of the Grosvenor (1791)
5. Remembering William Mackay: The Wreck of the Juno (1795)
6. The Cannibals and the Butterfly: The Wreck of the Medusa (1816)
7. King Babas Largesse: The Wreck of the Winterton (1792)
Part II. Representations
8. James F. Cobb and Daphne du Maurier in Cornwall
9. Stephen Crane and James Hanleys Open Boats
10. Proximity in Alfred Hitchcocks Lifeboat
11. John Steinbecks Lifeboat: An Unfinished Journey 12
Making Room: The Lifeboat, an Invidious Motif
13. The Inner Wreck in Sheila Fugards The Castaways 143 Coda
14. Soundings: Gavin Bryars and Brian Enos Titanics
15. Politics in Hans Magnus Enzensbergers The Sinking of the Titanic
16. The Endlessly Sinking Ship: Gunter Grasss Crabwalk
17. Regarding Lampedusa
18. Jacki McInness Urban Wreck
19. Constructive Wrecks
20. Postscript: Thinking from the Sea.

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