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When Lost's Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashed, the survivors found themselves on a seemingly deserted island. In Defoe's novel, Robinson Crusoe spends twenty-eight years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, while in the movie Castaway Tom Hanks survives over four years on a South Pacific island. And Jurassic Park kept its dinosaur population confined to an island off the coast of Central America. Islands often find themselves at the center...
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Includes a brief biography of William Golding, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas. Presents concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Provides multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. Digests of critical extracts prefaced by headnotes....
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Through a detailed unpacking of the castaway genre's appeal in English literature, Empire Islands forwards our understanding of the sociopsychology of British Empire. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower argues convincingly that by helping generations of readers to make sense of -- and perhaps feel better about -- imperial aggression, the castaway story in effect enabled the expansion and maintenance of European empire. Empire Islands asks why so many colonial...
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