The Mask of the Prophet
The Extraordinary Fictions of Jules Verne
Seiten
1990
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-815798-4 (ISBN)
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-815798-4 (ISBN)
Such novels as "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" and "Around the World in Eighty Days" have made Jules Verne the most widely translated of all French authors. He has been categorized as a science fiction and children's fantasy writer and this work attempts to relocate his reputation.
Such novels as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days have made Jules Verne the most widely translated of all French authors. But he has typically been categorized as the father of science fiction or a writer of harmless fantasies for children. Now, in this brilliantly original new book, Andrew Martin relocates Verne squarely at the centre of the literary map.
Dr Martin shows that a recurrent narrative (exemplified in short stories by Napoleon Bonaparte and Jorge Luis Borges), relating the strange destiny of a masked prophet who revolts against an empire, runs through Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires. This approach illuminates the paradoxical coalition in Verne of realism and invention, repression and transgression, imperialism and anarchy.
In this book Verne emerges not just as a key to the political and literary imagination of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries but as a model for reading fiction in general.
Such novels as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days have made Jules Verne the most widely translated of all French authors. But he has typically been categorized as the father of science fiction or a writer of harmless fantasies for children. Now, in this brilliantly original new book, Andrew Martin relocates Verne squarely at the centre of the literary map.
Dr Martin shows that a recurrent narrative (exemplified in short stories by Napoleon Bonaparte and Jorge Luis Borges), relating the strange destiny of a masked prophet who revolts against an empire, runs through Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires. This approach illuminates the paradoxical coalition in Verne of realism and invention, repression and transgression, imperialism and anarchy.
In this book Verne emerges not just as a key to the political and literary imagination of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries but as a model for reading fiction in general.
The masked writer; the beginning of the end; the one and the many; subversion subverted; death from dying; law and disorder; the self-destruct mechanism; the moment of truth; the prophet of the mask.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.5.1990 |
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Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 147 x 224 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-815798-3 / 0198157983 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-815798-4 / 9780198157984 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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