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  1. Seaing through the past
    postmodern histories and the maritime metaphor in contemporary anglophone fiction
    Author: Rostek, Joanna
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam [u.a.]

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Gießen
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    000 HG 430 R839
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    Location:
    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Philosophicum, Standort Anglistik/ Amerikanistik
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    L/A R 47 1
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9789042033818; 9042033819
    RVK Categories: HG 430 ; HN 1101 ; HN 1331
    Series: Postmodern studies ; 47
    Subjects: Englisch; Roman; Meer <Motiv>; Geschichtsphilosophie; Postmoderne; Seeschifffahrt <Motiv>
    Scope: 363 S.
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    Literaturverz. S. [337] - 358
  2. Seaing through the past
    postmodern histories and the maritime metaphor in contemporary Anglophone fiction
    Author: Rostek, Joanna
    Published: ©2011
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9042033819; 9401200793; 9789042033818; 9789401200790
    Series: Postmodern studies ; 47
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction; English literature; Ocean travel in literature; Sea in literature; Seafaring life in literature; Sea in literature; Ocean travel in literature; Seafaring life in literature; English literature; English fiction; Roman; Meer <Motiv>; Englisch; Seeschifffahrt <Motiv>; Postmoderne; Geschichtsphilosophie
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (363 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    From 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 10 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