Contact us on (02) 8445 2300
For all customer service and order enquiries

Woodslane Online Catalogues

9781936320707 Academic Inspection Copy

Men as Islands

Robinsonades from Sophocles to Margaret Atwood
  • ISBN-13: 9781936320707
  • Publisher: ACADEMICA PRESS
    Imprint: ACADEMICA PRESS
  • By David Stuart Reid, By Susan Reid
  • Price: AUD $206.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 30/03/2015
  • Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 290 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Literary studies: general [DSB]
Description
Google
Preview
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'.
Google Preview content