Icebound Modernity: The Shipwreck as Metaphor in Dan Simmons’ The Terror
In this article, I seek to present a “metaphorology” of the shipwreck through a literary example. As Hans Blumenberg has noted, the shipwreck has served as a metaphor for the contingency of human existence in Western culture. Building on Blumenberg’s ideas, I argue that modernity heightens contingen...
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| Language: | English |
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2019-12-01
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| Series: | American, British and Canadian Studies Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2019-0020 |