Overview
- Situates the study of shipwrecks in the larger frame of the environmental humanities
- Traces both the historical and representational examples of shipwreck
- Utilizes personal experience to illustrate how tropes are used in maritime literature
Part of the book series: Maritime Literature and Culture (MILAC)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Historical Narratives
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Representations
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Michael Titlestad is Personal Professor in the Department of English, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He has published widely in the fields of South African literature, apocalypticism, whiteness and jazz. He is the author of Making the Changes: Jazz in South African Literature and Reportage and is the co-editor (with David Watson) of The Ongoing End: The Limits of Apocalyptic Narrative. He is also the editor of English Studies in Africa, the most widely read literary studies journal in South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our Depth
Authors: Michael Titlestad
Series Title: Maritime Literature and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87041-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87040-9Published: 04 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87043-0Published: 05 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-87041-6Published: 01 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-5366
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5358
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 230
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Fiction, Literary Theory, History, general, History of Military, Archaeology