Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our Depth 1st Edition

Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our Depth 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030870409,3030870405,9783030870416, 3030870413

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3030870413
• ISBN-13: 9783030870416
• Author: Michael Titlestad

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.

Table contents:

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 Baba’s 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 Hanley’s Open Boats
10. Proximity in Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat
11. John Steinbeck’s ‘Lifeboat’: An Unfinished Journey
12. Making Room: The Lifeboat, an Invidious Motif
13. The Inner Wreck in Sheila Fugard’s The Castaways
14. Soundings: Gavin Bryars and Brian Eno’s Titanics
15. Politics in Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s The Sinking of the Titanic
16. ‘The Endlessly Sinking Ship’: Günter Grass’s Crabwalk
17. Regarding Lampedusa
18. Jacki McInnes’s Urban Wreck
19. Constructive Wrecks
20. Postscript: Thinking from the Sea

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