Maritime metaphorics in modernist literature

Thesis

This thesis explores the metaphoric role that the maritime world plays in modernist literature. Specifically, I make the case for a historically grounded modernist maritime metaphorics, by which authors draw on the material history of a pervasive maritime world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in their engagements with signature topics such as the city (Joseph Conrad), perception (Virginia Woolf and H.D.), expatriation (T.S. Eliot), and right-wing politics (Ezra Pound). Comb...

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Authors: Slabbert, T

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-mn1bjnepp
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: maritime ideology; T.S. Eliot; Virginia Woolf; Joseph Conrad; modernism; maritime history; H.D.; Ezra Pound; metaphor
• Subjects: Modernism (Literature); English; Metaphor; Maritime world