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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Superior document: | Postmodern studies ; 47 |
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Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Postmodern studies ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- New Histories – Old Metaphor
- Wavering Biographies: Remembering Individual Histories
- Salvaging the Self: Narratives of Personal Trauma
- Influential Sources: Discourses of Origin and the Politics of Power
- Reclaiming the Drowned: Post/Colonial Histories
- Conclusion
- List of Abbreviations
- Works Cited
- Index.