Robinson Crusoe: Myths and Metamorphoses (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349136797)

Robinson Crusoe explores Defoe's story, the legend it captured, the universal desire which underlies the myth and a range of modern re-writings which reveal a continued fascination with the problematic character of this narrative. Whether envisaged as an heroic rejection of the old world order, a piece of pre-colonialist propaganda or a tale raising archetypal problems of 'otherness' and 'inequality', the mythic value of Crusoe has become a pretext over many centuries for an examination of some of the fundamental problems of existence. This collection of essays examines, from a wide range of critical and philosophical perspectives, the cultural manifestations of Robinson Crusoe in different centuries, in different media, in different genres.

Author: Lieve Spaas
ISBN-10: 1349136794
ISBN-13: 9781349136797
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1996
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.78d