Index. Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Emma Cocker -- The capsized self : sea navigation, shipwrecks and escapes from drowning in southern Buddhist narrative and art / Sarah Shaw -- 'Describe nunc tempestatem' : sea storm and shipwreck type scenes in ancient literature / Boris Dunsch -- The sunken voice : depth and submersion in two early modern Portuguese accounts of maritime peril / Josiah Blackmore -- God's storms : shipwreck and the meanings of ocean in early modern England and America / Steve Mentz -- Shipwrecks and foraging of teh commercial nation : the 1786 wreck of the Halsewell / Carl Thompson -- Shipwreck in French and British visual art, 1700-1842 : Vernet, Northcote, Gericault, and Turner / Christine Riding -- Shipwrecks on the streets : maritime disaster and the broadside ballad tradition in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland / Kirsty Reed -- What lies beneath : the submarine shipwreck in Anglo-American culture, 1880-1920 / Stephen Donovan -- Molly Brown and the Titanic : the shipwrecked woman in U.S. culture / Robin Miskolcze -- Shipwrecking the world's 'wretched refuse' : spectres of neocolonial exclusion in Carl de Souza's Ceux qu'on jette a la mer and Charles Masson's Droit du sol / Veronique Bragard -- Wrecked in the shallows : Yann Martel's Life of Pi / Michael Titlestad -- Salvaging a romantic trope : the conceptual resurrection of shipwreck in recent art practice / Emma Cocker -- Bibliography -- List of contributors -- Index.
Summary:
"Tales of shipwreck have always fascinated audiences, and as a result there is a rich literature of suffering at sea, and an equally rich tradition of visual art depicting this theme. Exploring the shifting semiotics and symbolism of shipwreck, the interdisciplinary essays in this volume provide a history of a major literary and artistic motif as they consider how depictions have varied over time, and across genres and cultures. Simultaneously, they explore the imaginative potential of shipwreck as they consider the many meanings that have historically attached to maritime disaster and suffering at sea. Spanning both popular and high culture, and addressing a range of political, spiritual, aesthetic and environmental concerns, this cross-cultural, comparative study sheds new light on changing attitudes to the sea, especially in the West. In particular, it foregrounds the role played by the maritime in the emergence of Western modernity, and so will appeal not only to those interested in literature and art, but also to scholars in history, geography, international relations, and postcolonial studies." -- Publisher website.
Series:
Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 19
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