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From: Island Studies Journal[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Cheadle examines how colonial texts continue to influence aspects of Latin American literature, particularly how colonial depictions of islands and islanders are still reflected...
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From: The Author as Character: Representing Historical Writers in Western Literature[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Fokkema situates Flaubert’s Parrot and several other postmodernist works within the context of Roland Barthes’s essay “The Death of the Author” (1967).] There are brief and...
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From:Studies in the Novel (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFeaturing a British trader as its hero and set on a distant Caribbean island, Robinson Crusoe cries out for study in its colonial contexts. Indeed, British colonialism informs nearly every feature of Daniel Defoe's...
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From:Atlantis, revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEste trabajo propone que la historia de dos metaforas muertas, una ("living by wit") un cliche aun vigente, la otra ("knight of industry") un apodo ya obsoleto, esta cargada de aspectos relacionados con la historia...
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From: Anglia[(essay date 2019) In the following essay, Falkenhayner takes a semiotic cultural approach to A Journal of the Plague Year. She reads the novel as a text that examines the entanglement of social breakdown and social...
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From: ELH[(essay date fall 1990) In the following essay, Mayer looks at reader responses to the Journal, from Defoe's contemporaries to critics of the early twentieth century, focusing on the question of the historical truth of...
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From: Robinson Crusoe: The Use of the Novel in a History Course[(essay date 1959) In the following essay, originally printed as a monograph, Ellis discusses the application of Robinson Crusoe in a class on European history, and how it is used to study “the special ways in which a...
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From:The American Scholar (Vol. 77, Issue 2)This being within about a mile from the shore where I was, and the boat seeming to stand upright still, I wished myself on board, that, at least, I might save some necessary things for my use. --ROBINSON CRUSOE In...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6012)"The little art he is master of", according to a contemporary, amounts to "forging a story and imposing it on the world for truth." That is not the harshest thing that has been said about him in the current year. Now...
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From: Eighteenth-Century Fiction[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Novak examines Crusoe’s cave and grotto and the dreams and fantasy associated with them, as topoi that emphasize the novel’s realism.] It was only in the dream that we...
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From: Historical Boundaries, Narrative Forms: Essays on British Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century in Honor of Everett Zimmerman[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Novak assesses Robinson Crusoe's role within the development of the 'Robinsonade' genre of novels which recast the solitude of being stranded into a positive, and which often...
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From:Criticism (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedREWRITINGS OF CANONICAL NOVELS from marginal perspectives not only demonstrate the power of the original to command the desire for imitation but also expose its silences and contradictions. Where the prior text's...
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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJ. M. Coetzee's novel Foe begins with a shipwreck and ends with a confrontation underwater, as an unnamed, previously unvoiced narrator encounters Friday in a place "where bodies are their own signs" and each spoken...
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From:Biography (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFor Robinson Crusoe, the idea of home was difficult and gradual. It took him six months and seventeen days to build his cave-house on the island, which he named "The Island of Despair" (52). The first time that he...
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From:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 49, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDaniel Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe' shows the early 18th-century shift from an emphasis on narrative theology to an interpretive approach. Narrative theology is the practice of reading the Bible as literally and...
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From:The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Vol. 102, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and its sequel, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, are substantially concerned with questions about the order appropriately obtaining outside...
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From:Studies in the Novel (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSince around 1958 the Robinson Crusoe story of Daniel Defoe has been rewritten in various ways for entertainment on the large screen and the smaller one. The book has also been placed by literary historians at the...
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From:Studies in the Novel (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOne of the most iconic scenes in the most reprinted and widely circulated novel in the history of English literature is Robinson Crusoe deliberating upon the value of the assorted currency he discovers in the locker of...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)It is understandable that students of Daniel Defoe should draw attention to the scope and variety of his work—perhaps as many as 550 separate publications, if we include pamphlets, broadsides, and occasional pieces. His...
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From: Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700-1800[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Campana detects a “queer eroticism” in Robinson Crusoe that runs counter to “the dominant logic of masculine, bourgeois subjectivity Crusoe struggles so desperately to...