Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our Depth

Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our Depth
Author: Michael Titlestad
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2022-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3030870413

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 also an 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.

Narrative of the Loss of the Winterton East Indiaman, Which Was Wrecked Off the Island of Madagascar, August 20th, 1792. Written by the Third Mate

Narrative of the Loss of the Winterton East Indiaman, Which Was Wrecked Off the Island of Madagascar, August 20th, 1792. Written by the Third Mate
Author: JOHN. DALE
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781379666905

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library N071670 At head of title page: Tegg & Castleman's edition. Anonymous. By John Dale, third mate of the Winterton. London: printed for Tegg & Castleman; J. Belcher, Birmingham; B. Sellick, Bristol; T. Troughton, Liverpool; E. Peck, York; T. Binns, Leeds; J. Mitchell, Newcastle; J. Dingle, Bury St. Edmunds; T. Brown, Bath; M. Swindells, Manchester; J. Raw & J. Bush, I 32p., plate; 12°