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Spectacular failure : Robinson Crusoe I, II, III / Virginia La Grand.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- La Grand, Virginia.
- Series:
- Costerus New Series 198.
- Costerus new series ; 198
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character).
- Crusoe, Robinson.
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe.
- Defoe, Daniel.
- Survival--Fiction.
- Survival.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study examines Defoe’s three-volume Robinson Crusoe series in the light of the ‘banter’ style he developed as a pamphleteer. That heavily ironic style had brought him renown but also put him in the pillory. The present study explores for the first time Defoe’s complaint that readers and pirate abridgers misread his tale of the would-be trader Robinson Crusoe . Using Discourse Analysis and Relevance Theory to examine the early abridgements of Volume I and Defoe’s subsequent two volumes, this study argues that Defoe’s greatest success is also a peculiar failure.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- PREFACE
- READING ROBINSON CRUSOE
- PRINT DISCOURSE IN DEFOE’S DAY
- A LONG BATTLE OVER THE SHORTEST-WAY
- PIRATING ROBINSON CRUSOE
- ROBINSON CRUSOE’S TEXTUAL NEIGHBORS
- WHAT DEFOE LOST TO THE PIRATES
- A WORLD UNITED BY TRADE
- SERIOUS REFLECTIONS
- THE END OF THE DEBATE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- CURRICULUM VITAE OF THE AUTHOR.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-86881-4
- 94-012-0863-8
- OCLC:
- 823389621
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789401208635 DOI
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