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050		4	_aPN56.S4 R67 2011
100	1		_aRostek, Joanna.
245	1	0	_aSeaing Through the Past : _bPostmodern Histories and the Maritime Metaphor in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aBoston : _bBRILL, _c2011.
264		4	_c©2011.
300			_a1 online resource (363 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aPostmodern Studies ; _vv.47
505	0		_aIntro -- Seaing through the Past: Postmodern Histories and the Maritime Metaphor in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 New Histories - Old Metaphor -- 2.1 New Histories: Postmodernism, Literature, and the Study of History -- 2.2 Old Metaphor: The Maritime Metaphor in Literature -- 3 Wavering Biographies: Remembering Individual Histories -- 3.1 The Odd Discipline of Autobiography: Iris Murdoch's The Sea, the Sea (1978) -- 3.2 Life Course as a Ship's Course: Candia MsWilliams's Debatable Land (1994) -- 3.3 Small Men at Big History: Graham Swift's Last Orders (1996) and Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach (2007) -- 3.4 Seaing through Biographies -- 4 Salvaging the Self: Narratives of Personal Trauma -- 4.1 In Search of a Life Line: Yann Martel's Life of Pi (2002) -- 4.2 Plotting a Course in the Sea of Memory: John Banville's The Sea (2005) -- 4.3 Seaing through Trauma -- 5. Influential Sources: Discourses of Origin and the Politics of Power -- 5.1 Historiographic Darwinism and Ark-ology: Julian Barnes's A History pf the World in 101/2 Chapters (1989) -- 5.2 His and Her Stories: Jeanette Winterson's Lighthousekeeping (2004) and Doris Lessing's The Cleft (2007) -- 5.3 History in the Making: Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger (1992) -- 5.4 Seaing through Origins -- 6 Reclaiming the Drowned: Post/Colonial Histories -- 6.1 Rewriting Insular Classics: J.M. Coetzee's Foe (1986) and Marina Warner's Indigo or Mapping the Waters (1992) -- 6.2 The Sea is Slavery: Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts (1997) -- 6.3 Colonialism in a Ship-Shell: Matthew Kneale's English Passengers (2000) -- 6.4 Seaing through Post/Colonialism -- 7 Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Works Cited -- Index.
520			_aFrom 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 metaphor in contemporary Anglophone fiction through in-depth readings of fourteen influential and acclaimed novels published in the course of the last three decades. The book trenchantly argues that in contemporary fiction, maritime imagery gives expression to postmodernism's troubled relationship with historical knowledge, as theorised by Hayden White, Linda Hutcheon, and others. The texts in question are interpreted against the backdrop of four aspects of metahistorical problematisation. Thus, among others, Iris Murdoch's The Sea, the Sea (1978) is read in the context of auto/biographical writing, John Banville's The Sea (2005) as a narrative of personal trauma, Julian Barnes's A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (1989) as investigating the connection between discourses of origin and the politics of power, and Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts (1997) as opening up a postcolonial perspective on the sea and history. Persuasive and topical, Seaing through the Past offers a compelling guide to the literary oceans of today.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aEnglish fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
650		0	_aEnglish fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
650		0	_aOcean travel in literature.
650		0	_aSea in literature.
650		0	_aSeafaring life in literature.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aRostek, Joanna _tSeaing Through the Past _dBoston : BRILL,c2011 _z9789042033818
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aPostmodern Studies
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