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Comparative Critical Studies Electronic Supplement (2018): 3–4 Edinburgh University Press DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2018.0273 C British Comparative Literature Association www.euppublishing.com/ccs PLENARY PRESENTATIONS President’s Plenary Panel Introduction: Salvage/Triage: Outofthe Flames MARINA WARNER The theme of this triennial conference of the British Comparative Literature Association is prophetic in its implications: salvaging was on the mind of our members when we were brainstorming for a successor to Archive and to Migration. The extremely fast-moving history of the last month [June 2016] has made the whole enterprise of Salvage more urgent than it even was – and in many different directions of meaning. The primary meaning of Salvage is legal: a law of the sea, related to the laws of buried treasure in this country, which allows the finder to keep what he or she finds: finders keepers. After a shipwreck or capture by raiders or an enemy fleet, the rescuers are to be paid or given the cargo and its vessel or its value. The same goes, by extension, to goods rescued from fire or flood. . . Applied to literature and to comparative literary studies, this law of salvage conveys encouraging, happy, and rich figurative meanings: what we find is ours and finding
Comparative Critical Studies – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jun 1, 2018
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