‘Which Story do you Prefer?': The Limits of the Symbolic in Yann Martel's Life of Pi

This article investigates the symbolic and the material in Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi. I develop through psychoanalytical and phenomenological argumentation a reading of Martel's book as an updating of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, in the sense that each tempts its protagonist to t...

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Main Author: Karam Ally, Hamza (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2020]
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 83-100
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
NBE Anthropology
VA Philosophy
ZD Psychology
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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