Searches for the Significant: Robert Zemeckis' Cast Away as a Late Twentieth Century Response to Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe  

by Catharine Walker Bergström
University College of Trollhättan-Uddevalla,
Vänersborg, Sweden

Works Cited

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