
Men As Islands
Robinsonades from Sophocles to Margaret Atwood
Academica Press
Will be published approx. on 30. December 2014
Book
Hardback
290 pages
978-1-936320-70-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a meditation on isolation and community through the study of literary treatments of the theme. The treatments are fanciful rather than literal or clinical accounts of exile from society, myths, fables, tales of men without women on desert islands. Even Thoreau's Walden is something of a lark, a wilfully eccentric experiment. Most of the stories take place on islands, but sometimes the open sea, mountains or the forest make do as an 'I-land'.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bethesda
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-936320-70-7 (9781936320707)
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