Rewriting Crusoe : the Robinsonade across languages, cultures, and media


edited by Jakub Lipski
Bok Engelsk 2020 Rewriting Crusoe
Omfang
xiii, 196 sider
Opplysninger
Foreword / Robert Mayer -- Note on the edition used -- Introduction / Jakub Lipski -- Exploring and transcending the genre. "Mushrooms, capers, and other sorts of pickles" : Remaking genre in Peter Longueville's The Hermit (1727) / Rivka Swenson -- "If I had ..." : Counterfactuals, imaginary realities, and the poetics of the postmodern robinsonade / Patrick Gill -- National contexts. Castaways and colonialism : Dislocating cultural encounter in The Female American (1767) / Przemysław Uściński -- Setting the scene for the Polish robinsonade : The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom (1776) by Ignacy Krasicki and the early reception of Robinson Crusoe in Poland, 1769-1775 / Jakub Lipski -- The rise and fall of Robinson Crusoe on the London stage / Frederick Burwick -- Islands in Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped (1886) : A counter-robinsonade / Márta Pellérdi -- Ecocritical readings. Stormy weather and the gentle isle : Apprehending the environment of three robinsonades / Lora E. Geriguis -- Robinson's becoming-Earth in Michel Tournier's Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1967) / Krzysztof Skonieczny -- The robinsonade and the present condition. "The true state of our condition" : The twenty-first-century worker as castaway / Jennifer Preston Wilson -- Gilligan's Wake, Gilligan's Island, and historiographizing American popular culture / Ian Kinane -- Coda : Rewriting the robinsonade / Daniel Cook.. - "Published in 1719, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary literary works whose importance lies not only in the text itself but in its persistently lively afterlife. German author Johann Gottfried Schnabel-who in 1731 penned his own island narrative-coined the term "Robinsonade" to characterize the genre bred by this classic, and today hundreds of examples can be identified worldwide. This celebratory collection of tercentenary essays testifies to the Robinsonade's endurance, analyzing its various literary, aesthetic, philosophical, and cultural implications in historical context. Contributors trace the Robinsonade's roots from the eighteenth century to generic affinities in later traditions, including juvenile fiction, science fiction, and apocalyptic fiction, and finally to contemporary transmedial adaptations in film, television, theater, and popular culture. Taken together, these essays convince us that the genre's formal and ideological adaptability to changing social and cultural circumstances explains its enduring relevance to this day"--
Emner
Dewey
ISBN
9781684482313

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