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<P>Yann Martel’s 2001 novel <EM>Life of Pi</EM> 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.</P>

Critical Insights: Life of Pi

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Critical Insights

CRITICAL INSIGHTS: LIFE OF PI

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Dedication.
About This Volume.
On Life of Pi.
Biography of Yann Martel.
1: Critical Contexts.
2: Life of Pi: A Postmodern Castaway Novel Transcending Boundaries.
3: &#x201C;&#x2026; Faith in the Act of Storytelling:&#x201D; The Critical Reception of Life of Pi.
4: Survival through Meaning: Reading Life of Pi through the Lens of Logotherapy.
5: Life in Stories: Narrated Time in Life of Pi and To Live.
6: Critical Readings.
7: Pi&#x2019;s Life and What It Tells Us: A Jungian Reading of the Symbols of Life of Pi.
8: The New &#x201C;Demonic&#x201D; Animal: Crediting God and the Better Story in Life of Pi.
9: Regarding Others: Ethical Human-Animal Encounters in Life of Pi.
10: Empathizing with Animals through Fiction: Animal Studies in Life of Pi.
11: Confined Freedom and Free Confinement: The Ethics of Captivity in Life of Pi.
12: Believing without Evidence: Pragmatic Arguments for Religious Belief in Life of Pi.
13: Faith as Fiction or Narrative as Salvation? Ang Lee&#x2019;s Cinematic Adaptation of Life of Pi as a Pascalian Leap of Faith.
14: Transmedial Pi (3.1415926&#x2026;) Part One: Text and Context.
15: Transmedial Pi (3.1415926&#x2026;) Part Two: Visualization and Adaptation.
16: What We Bring to the World: Narrative-Making as Hermeneutical Practice in Life of Pi.
17: On the Tail of Trauma: The Stories We Tell Ourselves and Others.
18: Life of Pi and Homer&#x2019;s Odyssey: Suffering, Survival, and Storytelling.
19: Otherness in Pondicherry.
20: Resources.
Chronology of Yann Martel&#x2019;s Life.
Works by Yann Martel.
Bibliography.
About the Editors.
Contributors.
Index.

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