Surfacing the submarine myth. An intermedial, myth-critical and cultural-critical analysis of submarine narratives KU Leuven
This project will critically examine the neglected genre of submarine fiction (in literary and visual media) in order to shed new light on the entanglement of political and cultural imaginaries. As soon as the submarine was first introduced as a weapon of war, it became the object of mystification, not in the least because of its unique ability to remain invisible under water and attack out of the blue. Fiction has contributed to what can be ...