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Nov 11, 2022 · Shipwrecks have always been part of human experience, with the earliest account of a shipwreck, from ancient Egypt, being almost as old as the oldest known shipwreck. The loss of the Gulf Livestock 1 fits the most popular image of a shipwreck, with a vessel being overpowered by the forces of nature in a storm at sea.
- Alan G. Jamieson
- The Age of Sail
- The Nautical Metaphorics of Existence
- Noah’s Ark
- Ship as Metonym For Colonial Invaders
- White Sails, Black Sails
- Ships and Boats as Second Homes
- The Healing Power of Ships
- Ship as Gothic Space
- Ghost Ships
- The Invincible Large Ship
The Age of Sail lasted from the mid 15th century until the mid 19th century, depending on who you ask. Some say from the mid 16th century. Sailing ships are truly ancient inventions, but during the Age of Sail ships started to be used for warfare. Advances in navigation happened. Steam ships happened. Once steam ships happened, sailing ships were n...
This is a phrase from Hans Blumenberg in Shipwreck with Spectator: Paradigm of a Metaphor for Existence, 1997. He’s talking about all those metaphors we associate cross-culturally with ships: 1. Ship wrecks on the high sea 2. The juxtaposing safety of harbour 3. Storms (the crises of life) 4. Doldrums (the downtimes of life) Of course, any web of m...
If Noah’s Ark existed, it would have looked more like a massive floating crate than like a storybook boat, but illustrators clearly enjoy creating a more aesthetically pleasing ship.
Metonymy: when a word, name, or expression is used as a substitute for something else closely associated. For example, Canberrais a metonym for the Australian government.
In the Ancient Greek myth about Minotaur, King Minos and the Labyrinth of Crete, Theseus, son of Aegeus decided to be one of the seven young men that would go to Crete. He planned to kill the Minotaur and end the human sacrifices to the monster. Theseus promised his father King Aegeus that he would put up white sails coming back from Crete, allowin...
Most people like paintings of ships. You probably know someone with a painting of a ship on their wall. Perhaps we like to imagine the adventure promised by ships… but only while cosied up inside our own safe homes. These illustrations, also by Harald Skogsberg, show the homely potential of a boat — a second home, where you eat and drink with mates...
In Enid Blyton’s 1950 children’s story The Pole Star Family, Mike, Belinda and Ann have had a miserable summer. They have all been ill. But then Granny decides to take them on the cruise of a lifetime. They sail away on the gorgeous Pole Star and have the most fun ever! They visit towns with palaces and exotic markets in wonderful countries such as...
Ships make for great gothic spaces because they exist in that in-between state. Foucault named ships as examples of heterotopias (other places). Note that ships are only heterotopic while they’re at sea. When they’re in dry dock they’re still subject to the rules of the land, like the rest of us land lubbers. We might also use the word ‘liminal‘. I...
Here’s the interesting thing about Dracula: There were already a whole lot of scary ideas around ships by the time Dracula came along. Ships are scary because they so often cause literal death. The supernatural character of Dracula takes those metaphors around heterotopia and liminality and makes them literal within the world of the story. Dracula ...
Modern humans are used to seeing massive man-made constructions. Visit any city and skyscrapers no longer excite most of us. But massive ships were once the most enormous man-made constructions people had ever seen. The illustration below, from 1923, makes the most of a ship’s size, which is really only palpable when standing right beside one. The ...
About this book. Shipwreck Narratives: Out of Our Depth studies both the representation of shipwreck and the ways in which shipwrecks are used in creative, philosophical, and political works. The first part of the book examines historical shipwreck narratives published over a period of two centuries and their legacies.
Jul 10, 2015 · The central theses of the book are demonstrated in the close consideration of three major European literary works, The Odyssey, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, but throughout the book Morrison traces characteristic patterns of shipwreck narratives in a great variety of genres and artistic forms ranging from ancient Egyptian tales to modern science-fiction films and ...
Through this deceptively simple poem's picture of a lost ship on a huge ocean, Dickinson explores human vulnerability in the face of nature—and an indifferent cosmos more generally. Emily Dickinson probably wrote "Shipwreck" around 1863; like most of her work, the poem was only published posthumously, first appearing in the 1891 collection Poems.
May 1, 2015 · The motifs of island and shipwreck have been present in literature and the arts from ancient times. Whether they occur as plot elements, as part of literary or film imagery, as symbols in ...
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May 9, 2014 · Exploring the shifting semiotics and symbolism of shipwreck, the interdisciplinary essays in this volume provide a history of a major literary and artistic motif as they consider how depictions ...
