TY - BOOK ID - 70493041 TI - Castaway tales : from "Robinson Crusoe" to "Life of Pi" PY - 2016 SN - 9780819576576 9780819576224 0819576220 9780819576217 0819576212 0819576573 PB - Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Adventure stories KW - Castaways in literature. KW - Survival in literature. KW - Islands in literature. KW - Shipwrecks in literature. KW - Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character) KW - History and criticism. KW - Robinson Crusoe (Fictitious character) KW - Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character). KW - Crusoe, Robinson KW - Robinson Crusoe UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:70493041 AB - Although this is of course not the first in-depth study of the castaway tale, Palmer (emer., La Trobe Univ., Melbourne, Australia) has produced a clever, insightful taxonomy of the (sub)genre's development. Palmer expands, synthesizes, and deepens the critical discussion of literary castaway tales (he consciously avoids film and television) by thoughtfully examining a host of mostly 20th- and 21 st-century primary sources that have received only minimal critical coverage in this context.LanguageEnglish. ER -