Robinson Crusoe: Myths and Metamorphoses

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349136794
• ISBN13: 9781349136797
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"