Seaing through the past : postmodern histories and the maritime metaphor in contemporary Anglophone fiction

Seaing through the past : postmodern histories and the maritime metaphor in contemporary Anglophone fiction / Joanna Rostek.

From Daniel Defoe to Joseph Conrad, from Virginia Woolf to Derek Walcott, the sea has always been an inspiring setting and a powerful symbol for generations of British and Anglophone writers. Seaing through the Past is the first study to explicitly address the enduring relevance of the maritime meta...

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Main Author: Rostek, Joanna
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, ©2011.
Series:Postmodern studies ; 47.
Subjects:
1900-2099
Sea in literature.
Ocean travel in literature.
Seafaring life in literature.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction
English literature
Ocean travel in literature
Sea in literature
Seafaring life in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 New Histories
  • Old Metaphor
  • 2.1 New Histories: Postmodernism, Literature, and the Study of History
  • 2.2 Old Metaphor: The Maritime Metaphor in Literature
  • 3 Wavering Biographies: Remembering Individual Histories
  • 3.1 The Odd Discipline of Autobiography: Iris Murdoch's The Sea, the Sea(1978)
  • 3.2 Life Course as a Ship's Course: Candia McWilliam's Debatable LAnd (1994)
  • 3.3 Small Men at Big History: Graham Swift's Last Orders (1996) and lan McEwan's On Chesil Beath (2007)3.4 Seaing through Biographies
  • 4 Salvaging the Self: Narratives of Personal Trauma
  • 4.1 In Search of a Life Line: Yann Martel's Life of Pi (2002)
  • 4.2 Plotting a Course in the Sea of Memory: John Banville's The Sea (2005)
  • 4.3 Seaing through Trauma
  • 5 Influential Sources: Discourses of Origin and the Politics of Power
  • 5.1 Historiographic Darwinism and Ark-ology: Julian Barnes's A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters (1989)
  • 5.2 His and Her Stories: Jeanette Winterson's Lighthousekeeping (2004) and Doris Lessing's The Cleft (2007) 5.3 History in the Making: Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger (1992)
  • 5.4 Seaing through Origins
  • 6 Reclaiming the Drowned: Post/Colonial Histories
  • 6.1 Rewriting Insular Classics: J.M. Coetzee's Foe (1986) and Marina Warner's Indigo or Mapping the Waters (1992)
  • 6.2 The Sea is Slavery: Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts (1997)
  • 6.3 Colonialism in a Ship-Shell: Matthew Kneale's English Passengers (2000)
  • 6.4 Seaing through Post/Colonialism
  • 7 Conclusion
  • List of AbbreviationsWorks Cited
  • Index

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