Men as Islands: Robinsonades From Sophocles To Margaret Atwood

by David Stuart Reid

Overview

This book is a meditation on isolation and community through the study of literary treatments of the theme. The treatments are fanciful rather than literal or clinical accounts of exile from society, myths, fables, tales of men without women on desert islands. Even Thoreau’s Walden is something of a lark, a willful eccentric experiment. Most of the stories take place on islands, but sometimes the open sea, mountains or the forest make do as an ‘I-land’.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936320707
Publisher:	Academica Press
Publication date:	12/12/2015
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Stuart Reid was a Lecturer (ret.) in Department of English Studies, University of Stirling, and author of Ambiguities: Conflict and Union of Opposites in Robert Graves, Laura Riding, William Empson, and Yvor Winters (2012) and, with Susan Reid, Men as Island: Robinsonnades from Sophocles to Margaret Atwood (2015).