eBook: Castaway Tales: From Robinson Crusoe to Life of Pi (DRM EPUB)
 
電子書格式: DRM EPUB
作者: Christopher Palmer 
分類: Anthologies (non-poetry)  
書城編號: 27005836

原價: HK$260.00
現售: HK$247 節省: HK$13

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製造商: Wesleyan University Press
出版日期: 2016/05/10
ISBN: 9780819576224

商品簡介
A wide-ranging and appreciative literary history of the castaway tale from Defoe to the present Ever since Robinson Crusoe washed ashore, the castaway story has survived and prospered, inspiring a multitude of writers of adventure fiction to imitate and adapt its mythic elements. In his brilliant critical study of this popular genre, Christopher Palmer traces the castaway tales' history and changes through periods of settlement, violence, and reconciliation, and across genres and languages. Showing how subsequent authors have parodied or inverted the castaway tale, Palmer concentrates on the period following H. G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau. These much darker visions are seen in later novels including William Golding's Lord of the Flies, J. G. Ballard's Concrete Island, and Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory. In these and other variations, the castaway becomes a cannibal, the castaway's island is relocated to center of London, female castaways mock the traditional masculinity of the original Crusoe, or Friday ceases to be a biddable servant. By the mid-twentieth century, the castaway tale has plunged into violence and madness, only to see it return in young adult novels—such as Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins and Terry Pratchett's Nation—to the buoyancy and optimism of the original. The result is a fascinating series of revisions of violence and pessimism, but also reconciliation.
Christopher Palmer 作者作品表

Healing the Past: Discovering Meaning Beyond Childhood Trauma (Paperback)

Daily Reflections for Buddhist in Recovery (Paperback)

Apocalypse in Crisis: Fiction from 'The War of the Worlds' to 'Dead Astronauts' (Paperback)

I Don't Want the Obsession of a Twisted Archduke (Paperback)

Make: Machines and Mechanisms (Paperback)

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