The Sea in the Literary Imagination: Global Perspectives (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781527519619)

This collection explores nautical themes in a variety of literary contexts from multiple cultures. Including contributors from five continents, it emphasizes the universality of human experience with the sea, while focusing on literature that spans a millennium, stretching from medieval romance to the twenty-first-century reimagining of classic literary texts in film. These fresh essays engage in discussions of literature from the UK, the USA, India, Chile, Turkey, Spain, Japan, Colombia, and the Caribbean. Scholars of maritime literature will find the collection interesting for the unique insights it offers on individual literary texts, while general readers will be intrigued by the interconnectedness that it reveals in human experience with the sea.

Author: Ekaterina V. Kobeleva
ISBN-10: 1527519619
ISBN-13: 9781527519619
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 01/07/2019
Pages: 404
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 1.20d