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1. Shipwreck in Art and Literature

   Images and Interpretations from Antiquity to the Present Day

   Edited by Carl Thompson

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   Tales of shipwreck have always fascinated audiences, and as result there is a rich literature of suffering at sea, and an equally rich tradition of visual art depicting this theme. Exploring the shifting semiotics and symbolism of shipwreck, the interdisciplinary essays in this volume provide a...

   To Be Published July 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Travel Writing

   By Carl Thompson

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   An increasingly popular genre – addressing issues of empire, colonialism, post-colonialism, globalization, gender and politics – travel writing offers the reader a movement between the familiar and the unknown. In this volume, Carl Thompson: introduces the genre, outlining competing...

   Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge