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Life of Pi / editors, Ádám T Bogár and Rebeka Sára Szigethy.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical insights.
- Critical insights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Martel, Yann. Life of Pi.
- Martel, Yann.
- Martel, Yann--Criticism and interpretation.
- Human-animal relationships in literature.
- Life of Pi (Martel, Yann).
- Survival in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxix, 276 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Salem Press
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : Grey House Publishing, [2020]
- Summary:
- Yann Martel's novel earned him the Man Booker Prize and also served as the basis for the critically acclaimed 2012 movie of the same title. The essays featured in this volume survey the novel's critical reception, discussing topics ranging from narrative techniques through religion and philosophy to the cultural role of zoos, and also provide a brief introduction to the author's life and work.
- Contents:
- Critical contexts
- Critical readings.
- Dedication
- About this volume / Ádám T. Bogár and Rebeka Sára Szigethy
- On Life of Pi / Ádám T. Bogár and Rebeka Sára Szigethy
- Biography of Yann Martel / Gerardo Del Guercio
- Life of Pi : a postmodern castaway novel transcending boundaries / Nicolae Bobaru
- "...faith in the act of storytelling :" the critical reception of Life of Pi / Ádám T. Bogár and Rebeka Sára
- Survival through meaning : reading Life of Pi through the lens of logotherapy / Eszter Láncos
- Life in stories : narrated time in Life of Pi and To live / Shu-Jiang Lu
- Pi's life and what it tells us : a jungian reading of the symbols of Life of Pi / Debaditya Mukhopadhyay
- The new "demonic" animal : crediting God and the better story in Life of Pi / Rachel L. Carazo
- Regarding others : ethical human-animal encounters in Life of Pi / Alice Bendinelli
- Empathizing with animals through fiction : animal studies in Life of Pi / Monica Sousa
- Confined freedom and free confinement : the ethics of captivity in Life of Pi / Heather Browning and Walter Veit
- Believing without evidence : pragmatic arguments for religious belief in Life of Pi / Alberto Oya
- Faith as fiction or narrative as salvation? Ang Lee's cinematic adaptation of Life of Pi as a Pascalian leap of faith / Christian Jimenez
- Transmedial Pi (3.1415926...) part one : text and context / Naomi Simone Borwein
- Transmedial Pi (3.1415926...) part two : visualization and adaptation / Naomi Simone Borwein
- What we bring to the world : narrative-making as Hermeneutical practice in Life of Pi / Francesca Pierini
- On the tail of trauma : the stories we tell ourselves and others / Jen Yoder
- Life of Pi and Homer's Odyssey : suffering, survival, and storytelling / Adam Lecznar
- Otherness in Pondicherry / Regina A. Bernard
- Chronology of Yann Martel's life
- Works by Yann Martel
- Bibliography
- About the editors
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781642656688
- 1642656682
- OCLC:
- 1199131876
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