{"product_id":"seaing-through-the-past-9789042033818","title":"Seaing through the Past","description":"From Daniel Defoe to Joseph Conrad, from Virginia Woolf to Derek Walcott, the sea has always been an inspiring setting and a powerful symbol for generations of British and Anglophone writers. \u003ci\u003eSeaing through the Past\u003c\/i\u003e is the first study to explicitly address the enduring relevance of the maritime metaphor in contemporary Anglophone fiction through in-depth readings of fourteen influential and acclaimed novels published in the course of the last three decades. The book trenchantly argues that in contemporary fiction, maritime imagery gives expression to postmodernism’s troubled relationship with historical knowledge, as theorised by Hayden White, Linda Hutcheon, and others. The texts in question are interpreted against the backdrop of four aspects of metahistorical problematisation. Thus, among others, Iris Murdoch’s \u003ci\u003eThe Sea, the Sea \u003c\/i\u003e(1978) is read in the context of auto\/biographical writing, John Banville’s \u003ci\u003eThe Sea \u003c\/i\u003e(2005) as a narrative of personal trauma, Julian Barnes’s \u003ci\u003eA History of the World in 10½ Chapters \u003c\/i\u003e(1989) as investigating the connection between discourses of origin and the politics of power, and Fred D’Aguiar’s \u003ci\u003eFeeding the Ghosts \u003c\/i\u003e(1997) as opening up a postcolonial perspective on the sea and history. Persuasive and topical, \u003ci\u003eSeaing through the Past \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a compelling guide to the literary oceans of today.","brand":"Joanna Rostek","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48394787586299,"sku":"9789042033818","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_01fcb92c-5989-4f48-8278-8b9175076d06.jpg?v=1778023467","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/seaing-through-the-past-9789042033818","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}