Abstract
What if we put to our texts the injunction of the Spanish intellectual Jose Ortega y Gasset—"We must call the classics before a court of shipwrecked men to answer certain peremptory questions with reference to real life"? The answer that emerges from an investigation of several literary works depicting a shipwrecked person who has access to one or more texts—Shakespeare's Tempest , Defoe's Robinson Crusoe , Stevenson's Treasure Island , and, at one point, Dante's Inferno —points to the transformative power of such texts. Ortega's own work lead to an exploration of authenticity and vocation in Vergil's Aeneid .
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