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Author: Jean Baptiste Henry Savigny
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2020-04-09
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNarrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 tells a story of the shipwreck of the Medusa frigate, its aftermath, and the tales of its survivors. Later in the book the author, Jean Baptiste Henri Savigny, describes the area where the shipwreck took place as well as his thoughts about colonization and about the practice of slavery.
Author: Michael Titlestad
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-01-01
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 3030870413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShipwreck 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. Michael Titlestad points to a range of narrative conventions, literary tropes and questions concerning representation and its limits in narratives about these historic shipwrecks. The second part engages novels, poems, films, artwork, and musical composition that grapple with shipwreck. Collectively the chapters suggest the spectacular productivity of shipwreck narrative; the multiple ways in which its concerns and logic have inspired anxious creativity in the last century. Titlestad recognizes in weaving in his personal experience that shipwreck—the destruction of form and the advent of disorder—could be seen not only as a corollary for his own neurological disorder, but also an abiding principle in tropology. This book describes how shipwreck has figured in texts (from historical narratives to fiction, film and music) as an analogue for emotional, psychological, and physical fragmentation.
Author: Library. Library Company
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Published: 1835
Total Pages: 1144
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 834
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 1246
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Albert Alhadeff
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-04-07
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1000036995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines Théodore Géricault’s images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery’s trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa. The book focuses on Géricault’s depiction of black people, his approach towards slavery, and the voices that advanced or denigrated them. By turning to documents, essays and critiques, both before and after Waterloo (1815), and, most importantly, Géricault’s own oeuvre, this study explores the fetters of slavery that Gericault challenged—alongside a growing number of abolitionists—overtly or covertly. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, race and ethnic studies and students of modernism.
Author: Samuel Greatheed
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Published: 1819
Total Pages: 636
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christine Quigley
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780786401703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout the centuries, different cultures have established a variety of procedures for handling and disposing of corpses. Often the methods are directly associated with the deceased's position in life, such as a pharaoh's mummification in Egypt or the cremation of a Buddhist. Treatment by the living of the dead over time and across cultures is the focus of study. Burial arrangements and preparations are detailed, including embalming, the funeral service, storage and transport of the body, and forms of burial. Autopsies and the investigative process of causes of deliberate death are fully covered. Preservation techniques such as cryonic suspension and mummification are discussed, as well as a look at the recycling of the corpse through organ donation, donation to medicine, animal scavengers, cannibalism, and, of course, natural decay and decomposition. Mistreatments of a corpse are also covered.
Author: Evan L. Balkan
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
Published: 2010-05-10
Total Pages: 792
ISBN-13: 0897328442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor readers who relish the image of clinging to a sinking makeshift raft while fighting off sword-wielding and delirious mutineers wrenching the last cask of water from a sailor's sun-scorched hands (while sharks circle in famished anticipation), Shipwrecked! Adventures and Disasters at Sea is an irresistible read. A heady voyage through human suffering at the hands of unforgiving oceans, cruel captains, and implacable fate, this latest collection of Evan Balkan's impeccably researched true adventures details 14 major maritime disasters. Included are such legendary stories as the 1629 maiden voyage of the Batavia that ended in mutiny and murder, and the dramatic destruction of the majestic three-masted barquentine Endurance in ice-clogged Antarctic waters in 1912. A vast spectrum of human emotion and activity is featured in these exciting profiles, from deadly incompetence and brutish cannibalism to surprising self-sacrifice and quiet heroism.
Author: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Jones
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Published: 1819
Total Pages: 1054
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