The devil inside that won’t be caged or fixed by words: Fluidity and ethics in Ian McGuire’s The North Water

• Published in: Ars Aeterna
• Main Author: Chalupský, Petr
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2019
• Subjects: Literature and Literary Theory; Linguistics and Language; Language and Linguistics; Cultural Studies; Arctic; McCarthy; Sumner
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aa-2019-0007; https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/aa/11/2/article-p1.xml; https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/aa-2019-0007

Abstract In Ian McGuire’s novel The North Water (2016), Patrick Sumner, a young medical doctor recently dismissedfrom the British Army with his reputation and professional prospects in ruins, accepts a poorly paid position as a surgeon on a whaling ship in his attempt to flee from his past and his t...