"Trust me - it's paradise" : the escapist motif in into the wild, the beach and are you experienced? / Hannes Krehan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krehan, Hannes, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Escape (Psychology)--Germany.

Escape (Psychology).

Culture--History.

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (93 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hamburg, Germany : Anchor Academic Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author analyzes three books on escapism and the various ways in which it is represented in them. He focuses on Alex Garland's backpacker cult novel 'The Beach' and William Sutcliffe's satire of the gap-year traveler 'Are You Experienced?' as well as Jon Krakauer's non-fiction book 'Into the Wild'.The first part of the analysis deals with the influence of literary genres like the Bildungsroman and travel literature. Unreliable narration as a narrative strategy is taken into consideration, as well as the colonial subtext of 'The Beach' and 'Are You Experienced?'. In 'Into the Wild' nature wr

Contents:

„Trust me - it's paradise"

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Literary aspects

1.1 Influences of the Bildungsroman

1.2 Influences of travel literature

1.3 Unreliable Narration

2. Cultural Aspects

2.1 Escape through travel

2.2 Escape into drugs

2.3 Danny Boyle's The Beach (2000)

2.4 Sean Penn's Into The Wild (2007)

Conclusion

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 16, 2014).

ISBN:

3-95489-685-0

OCLC:

871779643