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Moore, Richard W. "Defoe's fictions of memory." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2008.
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Tagg, Jeremy Alistair David. "The Machiavellian Defoe : a study of the influence of popular political thought literature on the propaganda and the fiction of Daniel Defoe." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1995. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-machiavellian-defoe--a-study-of-the-influence-of-popular-political-thought-literature-on-the-propaganda-and-the-fiction-of-daniel-defoe(6d795d03-4a06-4a9f-9b61-15d4453fed44).html.
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Vickers, I. R. "The influence of the new sciences on Daniel Defoe's habit of mind and literary method." Thesis, Open University, 1988. http://oro.open.ac.uk/54614/.
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Fossum, John E. "Casuistical Connections from Dunton to Defoe." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2004. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd520.pdf.
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Junior, José David Borges. "As máscaras de Robinson Crusoe: a representação do individualismo moderno em Daniel Defoe e Mozael Silveira." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8156/tde-14112012-121342/.
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Esta dissertação visa a estudar as metamorfoses do individualismo moderno em duas produções culturais distintas, concebidas em civilizações e contextos históricos também diversos, a saber: Reino Unido, à época da Revolução Inglesa e Brasil, em tempos de ditadura militar. Para isso, realizou-se uma análise comparativa entre as obras Robinson Crusoe, de Daniel Defoe e As aventuras de Robinson Crusoé, de Mozael Silveira. Assim, foi possível verificar como a literatura e o cinema, entendidos como campos narrativos, funcionam em processos dialógicos, encenando problemáticas sociais, históricas e ideológicas por meio de suas construções discursivas e linguagens próprias, de modo a simbolizar o mundo e oferecer, ao pesquisador, novas formas ou modelos para compreensão da realidade e, portanto, do próprio entendimento acerca do supracitado conceito.This dissertation aims to study the metamorphoses of modern individualism into two distinct cultural productions, designed in civilizations and historical contexts also distinct, namely: United Kingdom, at the time of the English Revolution and Brazil, in times of military dictatorship. For both, the comparative analysis works as a method of investigation between Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe and As aventuras de Robinson Crusoé, by Mozael Silveira. In this way, was possible to verify as literature and cinema, understood as narrative fields, works in dialogic processes, staging social, historical and ideological problems through their own languages and discursive constructions, to symbolize the world and offer, for the researcher, new forms or models for understanding of reality and, therefore, the understanding of that concept.
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Marbais, Peter Christian. "The fate of this poor woman men, women, and intersubjectivity in Moll Flanders and Roxana /." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1112111031.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2005.Title from PDF t.p. (Aug. 9, 2006). Advisor: Vera J. Camden. Keywords: intersubjectivity; Moll Flanders; Roxana; Fate; Providence. Includes bibliographical references (p. 347- 361).
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Stocks, Tiphanie N. "Daniel Defoe and the reform of the English nation an examination of his moralistic writings /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2002. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2619.
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Boulukos, George Eleftherios. "The grateful slave : representations of slave plantation reform in the British novel, 1720-1805 /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Slagle, Judith Bailey. "Appropriating the Restoration: Fictional Place and Time in Works by Daniel Defoe, Sir Walter Scott and Rose Tremain." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3220.
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While authors have appropriated literary works for centuries, they have also appropriated historical settings and places well outside their own realities, creating new works in historical settings that reflect a new cultural purpose. The Restoration and eighteenth century are frequent subjects of popular formula-fiction romances due to the distinctive, easily replicated atmospheres; but the period has also inspired serious, traditional historical fiction and fictionalized biography as well as productions of novels from the period. This panel focuses on the long eighteenth century and the period’s intrigue for filmmakers, TV producers and audiences in a modern-day culture
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Kozaczka, Edward Jonathan. ""I made him know his name should be Friday" naming and sexuality in Robinson Crusoe and Foe /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2009.
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Slagle, Judith Bailey. "Erotic Spaces, Close Encounters and Isolation: Advice to Domestic Servants from Defoe, Haywood and Swift." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5436.
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Macy, Alexandra G. "The Socio-economic and Religious Aspects in Robinson Crusoe." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/199.
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In the novel, Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe examines a wide range of complex issues. Defoe takes the typical adventure theme and transforms it into a thought-provoking reflection of many issues involving society. A blending of economic and religious issues is created by first focusing on economy, then bringing the issue of religion in, and finally allowing for the portrayal of the interpenetration between each. Defoe proves that it is possible to live by economic practices and monetary values while still maintaining a good, moral character. The emphasis on economic issues is extremely apparent, as Defoe calls into question the concept of money and its value, as well as its place in society. Crusoe is first portrayed as a man defined by money and ruled by economic principles. Even when removed from society, he is impelled to practice many economic conventions, such as investment, moderation and the idea of profit. Defoe creates Crusoe to be so greatly influenced by money and the economy in the beginning so as to better emphasize the intertwining of his economic side with his religious side. The Christian values and morals of Crusoe dominate the latter part of the novel. He rediscovers the Bible and its teachings and learns the importance of repentance and giving thanks. The provocative progression in unveiling the many layers of Crusoe allows for the reader to see that the man they thought to be defined by money is rather a man trying to live by the Word of God.
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Faúndez, Morán Pablo. "La Focalización en Robinson Crusoe (1719) de Daniel Defoe: La visión sobre el indígena." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2007. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/110452.
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Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura Hispánica mención Literatura[...] Ahora bien, la intención de este informe no es referir este amplio marco de estudio, sino centrarnos en una de sus manifestaciones más representativas durante el siglo XVIII, el Robinson Crusoe , escrito y publicado el año 1719 por Daniel Defoe en Inglaterra. La imagen del náufrago inglés es hoy casi universal, dada la fuerza de la metáfora de la sobrevivencia del hombre solo en una isla. Sin embargo, la lectura atenta de la novela y la investigación en torno a ella, han ido revelando cada vez con mayor detalle múltiples elementos dentro de ésta, que permiten identificar ciertas problemáticas que aquí queremos abordar. La primera motivación que fundamenta esta investigación es la de reconocer la obra de Daniel Defoe en un contexto de producción y dilucidar las redes que conectan al texto y su época. Sin embargo, esta resultaría una tarea demasiado extensa, dado que las posibilidades son múltiples: relación con un contexto religioso, relación con un contexto político, relación con un contexto social, económico, filosófico o incluso estrictamente literario. Pero la mejor solución para enfrentar este primer problema es simple: ceñirse a lo que la misma obra dice, a los elementos de la realidad que ésta desarrolla. Y el reconocimiento de estos, es el reconocimiento de la focalización. Los diccionarios de retórica consultados definen ésta fundamentalmente como el punto de vista desde el cual se narra. Ese es entonces nuestro primer objetivo: ¿quién y cómo narra Robinson Crusoe? ¿De qué herramientas se vale para ello? ¿Qué cosas son las que priman en esta relación? ¿Cómo se construye la perspectiva narrativa y de enunciación en la obra de Defoe?
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Viegas, Shéllida Fernanda da Collina 1978. "A prostituição matrimonial : um estudo acerca da trajetoria de Moll Flandres." [s.n.], 2006. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270191.
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Orientador: Suzi Frankl SperberDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: A Inglaterra do século XVIII foi marcada por diversos problemas de diversas ordens. O surgimento do capitalismo desencadeou profundas mudanças tanto na economia quanto na sociedade, e isso se refletiu nas relações entre homens e mulheres e nos seus novos papéis nesse novo mundo. Esse clima, obviamente, reflete-se na literatura, mais precisamente na obra aqui analisada, MoU Flanders. As surpresas começam com a própria naITadora: uma mulher. Esta é o extremo oposto das narradoras convencionais, modelos de comportamento e moral, pois era ladra e prostituta. Prostituta? Ao ler a obra, questionei-me sobre a validade dessa descrição e isso motivou-me a analisar essa fascinante obra. Irei, neste trabalho, ater-me principalmente ao que, no decorrer dos tempos, foi a principal característica atribuída à protagonista: a prostituição. Para tanto, procurei respostas tanto na literatura quanto na sociedade da época, pois somente com essas duas análises poderei resolver a questão aqui colocada
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Horn, Jessica. "Maternal Misogyny: Absent Mothers in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2001. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0327101-132957/restricted/horn0412.pdf.
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Viegas, Shéllida Fernanda da Collina 1978. "A extraordinária e irresoluta história da trajetória de Roxana e Moll Flanders." [s.n.], 2011. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270173.
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Orientador: Suzi Frankl SperberTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Como é possível o mesmo autor, na mesma época, escrever dois romances com a mesma temática e dar-lhes tratamento tão distinto? Essa é a pergunta que intriga os leitores de Defoe ao ler duas das suas principais obras literárias, Moll Flanders (1722) e Roxana (1724), e é também a pergunta que norteou esta pesquisa. Para responder a isso, estudamos a história da leitura, o surgimento e a popularização do romance, a história dos direitos autorais e a influência do público leitor na produção de romances. Isso porque ambas as obras de Defoe tiveram várias edições ao longo do séc. XVIII que se diferenciavam das primeiras tiragens. Visando estabelecer algumas hipóteses para explicar os motivos que levaram os editores a alterar os finais das obras, foram analisadas, nesses romances, as figuras da prostituta, amante, esposa e mãe e a condição da mulher na Inglaterra pré-Revolução Industrial, sem perder de vista a questão da edição e da recepção
Abstract: To what extent is it possible that an author over the same decade had written two novels about the same central theme, but from and with different perspectives? The readers of Daniel Defoe are right to raise this issue after reading Moll Flanders (1722) and Roxana (1724). This research sets about answering such questions. To this end, I used Defoe's novels to take a close look at the history of reading, the creation and popularity of the novel, copyright implications and the influence of the reader in the production of novels. After all, both novels underwent a series of different editions throughout the eighteenth century. To formulate a working hypothesis to outline the reasons that allowed such changes in editions, I analyzed the figures of the prostitute, lover, wife and mother and the condition of women in pre-Industrial Revolution England in both novels
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Battaglia, Stela Maris Fazio. "Questões de linguagem na obra Robinson Crusoé: a dialogia da palavra na vida solitária." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-08122009-161028/.
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Esta tese apresenta um estudo sobre a criação literária de Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoé, escrita em 1719. Seu estatuto de obra clássica com inúmeras adaptações inserea numa cadeia discursiva de porte extraordinário, na qual o personagem revela-se um mito. O presente estudo, alicerçado no conceito de compreensão criadora de Mikhail Bakhtin, buscou uma ampliação de sentidos na análise do objeto empírico, com os seguintes objetivos: questionar um possível uso de obras clássicas como fetiches, o esvaziamento de seus sentidos e averiguar a hipótese de Robinson Crusoé ser um protótipo do homem como ser de linguagem, metalinguístico. O levantamento de tal hipótese foi possível pela concepção da dialogia da linguagem, entendida no conceito do Círculo de Bakhtin. A metodologia utilizada constou de sucessivas leituras da obra em questão, seleção de atos de linguagem expressos pelo personagem e sua categorização. A partir daí foram buscadas as representações do Outro nos enunciados de Robinson durante o período de seu total isolamento na ilha em que naufragou; a procura foi norteada pelo conceito da constituição dialógica da palavra, dado que no contexto de enunciação não havia presença real de interlocutores. Como forma de enfatizar o caráter dialógico da linguagem, realizou-se, também, uma seleção de marcas do Outro no relato autobiográfico do personagem (a obra em seu todo), algumas delas explicitamente visualizadas. As reflexões de diferentes autores acham-se presentes neste estudo: Roland Barthes, Michel de Certeau, Jeanne Marie Gagnebin, Ivonne Bordelois, Zygmunt Bauman, Dominique Maingueneau, Fernando Savater, David Olson, George Steiner. Os resultados do trabalho atestam a propriedade da hipótese formulada e demonstram a força da linguagem na vida humana, confirmando a necessidade de valorização da palavra em meio à crise cultural presente na modernidade líquida.The following thesis presents a study on Daniel Defoes literary creation Robinson Crusoe, written in 1719. Its status as a literary classic that has been the subject of endless adaptations gives Robinson Crusoe an extraordinary position in the discursive chain, revealing the character as a myth. The present study, based on Mikhail Bakhtins concept of creative understanding, sought to amplify the meanings in the analysis of its empirical object, with the following aims: to question the possible use of classic works as fetishes, to empty its meanings and to investigate the hypothesis of Robinson Crusoe being a prototype of man as a being of language, a metalinguistic being. This hypothesis was enabled by the concept of the dialogism of language, understood within the concept of Bakhtins Circle. The methodology employed consisted of successive readings of the work, the selection of acts of language expressed by the character, and their classification into categories. From this basis, the representations of the Other in Robinsons enunciations during his period of total isolation on the island where he was shipwrecked were sought; the search was guided by the concept of the dialogic constitution of speech, since within the context of the enunciation there were no actual conversational partners present. To stress the dialogic character of language, a selection was also made of the signs of the Other in the characters autobiographical account (the work as a whole), some of which were explicitly visualized. The reflections of different authors are present in this study: Roland Barthes, Michel de Certeau, Jeanne Marie Gagnebin, Ivonne Bordelois, Zygmunt Bauman, Dominique Maingueneau, Fernando Savater, David Olson, and George Steiner. The results of this study confirm the correctness of the hypothesis proposed and demonstrate the strength of language in human life, supporting the need to value speech in the midst of the cultural crisis of liquid modernity.
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Pallo, Vicki. "Quarantining the criminal isolation in early British literature of crime and detection /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2009.
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Loar, Chris F. "Savage violence technology, civility, and sovereignty in British fiction, 1682-1745 /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1467893651&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Inácio, Neto José. "Daniel Defoe e as representações do Novo Mundo : um diálogo entre romances e relatos de viagem (1697-1729) /." Franca, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/144507.
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Resumo: Daniel Defoe foi uma figura importante para as transformações literárias que caracterizaram a difusão do romance na Inglaterra setecentista, gênero em formação durante este período. Entre as características de sua obra ficcional, notamos a semelhança com alguns relatos de viagens - como os de Drake, Raleigh, Poyntz, Narborough, Dampier e Rogers - e representações recorrentes do continente americano - territórios nunca visitados pelo autor. Os textos publicados por estes viajantes contêm representações de regiões da América como o Caribe e os litorais ocidentais da América do Sul que, por sua vez, também aparecem como cenários nas obras ficcionais do romancista. Por outro lado, conhecido pelo engajamento político e pela participação nas discussões sobre os rumos da expansão do Império Britânico, o autor também lança mão desta literatura em seus ensaios para sustentar seus argumentos sobre as possibilidades de avanço imperial no Novo Mundo. Partindo de reflexões teóricas importantes para a História Cultural, sobretudo aquelas ligadas às noções de representação e apropriação debatidas por Roger Chartier, a presente pesquisa intenta estabelecer relações entre as obras de ficção de Defoe e os relatos de viagem lidos por ele. Neste sentido, a análise se orientará por alguns questionamentos centrais: como e por que estas representações de domínios coloniais de outros Impérios aparecem na ficção de Defoe? De que maneira estas representações se relacionam com os relatos de viagem que ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: Daniel Defoe was an important writer for the literary transformations that marked the spread of the novel in eighteenth-century England, genre that was in making during this period. Among the features of his fictional work, we note the similarity with some travel accounts - like those of Drake, Raleigh, Poyntz, Narborough, Dampier and Rogers - and recurring representations of the American continent - territories never visited by the author. The texts published by these travelers contain representations of regions of America as the Caribbean and the western coasts of South America, which, in turn, also appear as scenarios in the fictional works of the novelist. On the other hand, known for political engagement and participation in discussions on the directions of expansion of the British Empire, the author also makes use of this literature in his essays to support his arguments about the possibilities of imperial advance in the New World. Starting from important theoretical reflections for Cultural History, especially those related to the notions of representation and appropriation discussed by Roger Chartier, this research attempts to establish relations between the works of Defoe's fiction and travel reports read by him. In this sense, the analysis is guided by some central questions: how and why these representations of colonial domains of other empires appear in fiction of Defoe? How these representations are related to the travel accounts that are mentioned by the author in his non-fiction works? To what extent the fictional author's works have issues related to the expansion of the British Empire in the early eighteenthcentury? Our main objective, therefore, is to try to support the hypothesis that Defoe's novels contain representations of the New World, to some extent, that were built by appropriation of elements found in travel accounts read by him. Furthermore, we will try to...
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Bailey, Jillian. "The Dangerous Women of the Long Eighteenth Century: Exploring the Female Characters in Love in Excess, Roxana, and A Simple Story." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3583.
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The Long Eighteenth Century was a period in which change was constant and proceeding the Restoration Era; this sense of change continued throughout the era. Charles II created an era in which women were allowed on the theatre stage, and his mistresses accompanied him to court; Charles II set the stage for the proto-feminist ideas of the eighteenth century that would manifest themselves in Eliza Haywood’s Love in Excess, Daniel Defoe’s Roxana, and Elizabeth Inchbald’s A Simple Story. These novels showcase the enlightenment of women and some of their male contemporaries and the beginning struggles of female agency. The eighteenth century was a time in which the separate sphere mentality grew ever stronger within the patriarchal society, and yet, women began to question their subservient place in this society—although this struggle would continue to intensify throughout the nineteenth century and eventually come to fruition in the late nineteenth century.
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Francisco, Amanda Ramos. "Traduzindo Moll Flanders : as versões de Lucio Cardoso e Antônio Alves Cury sob a perspectiva dos estudos de tradução." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/5535.
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Os fenômenos da tradução, assim como vários dos diversos percursos históricos e teóricos apresentados ao longo da História sobre o tema, serão explicitados e discutidos. A avaliação comparatista de duas traduções de Moll Flanders, de autoria de Daniel Defoe, será desenvolvida, levando-se em consideração as concepções mais atuais dos Estudos de Tradução, como a teoria da Reescritura de Andre Lefevere. Aspectos como o status do tradutor, assim como o sistema literário do qual este provém, são fatores que também serão pertinentes às referidas análises críticas.
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Lemos, Helena Maria Roennau. "The dark side is the bright side, in Robinson Crusoe : a transdisciplinary reading of Daniel Defoe's novel." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/7922.
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Este estudo propõe uma leitura do século 21 de Robinson Crusoe, do escritor inglês Daniel Defoe, buscando identificar as razões que fazem a história do náufrago que vive numa ilha deserta por 28 anos permanecer excepcionalmente popular no mundo ocidental por três séculos. A leitura é um exercício prático do pensamento complexo, que constitui um dos três pilares da transdisciplinaridade, definido pelo pensador francês Edgar Morin. Esse enfoque consiste na identificação de padrões e inter-relações entre elementos internos do texto e externos a ele. O pensamento complexo conecta o conhecimento empírico/lógico/racional à sabedoria simbólica/mitológica/mágica. O estudo tem início com um retrospecto da carreira de Robinson Crusoe, considerando os textos fundadores que podem ter influenciado sua criação, e os inúmeros textos imitativos que se seguiram à sua publicação, originando um subgênero literário, das Robinsonadas. Uma síntese da biografia de Defoe ilustra o cenário de um mundo europeu de mudanças científicas, políticas e sociais radicais. O contexto e a fortuna crítica do autor são colocados lado a lado com a contribuição de estudos de filosofia da ciência, psicologia analítica, mitologia, antropologia e religião, na investigação do imaginário inscrito no romance. O capítulo quatro apresenta minha leitura transdisciplinar de Robinson Crusoe, destinada a demonstrar que a popularidade duradoura do romance é devida a seu poder de transmitir significados velados, conectados com elementos constitutivos do imaginário do mundo ocidental.This study proposes a twenty-first-century reading of Robinson Crusoe, by British writer Daniel Defoe, aiming to identify the reasons why the story of the castaway who lives on an uninhabited island for 28 years has remained remarkably popular in the Western world for almost three centuries. The reading is a drill on Complex Thinking, as defined by French epistemologist Edgar Morin, one of the pillars of Transdisciplinarity. This approach consists of the identification of patterns and interrelationships among elements inside the text and elements external to it, in the light of a number of disciplines involved in the study. Complex Thinking connects empirical/logical/rational knowledge to symbolic/mythological/magical wisdom. The study starts with a review of the career of the book, considering the founding texts which might have influenced the creation of Robinson Crusoe, and the myriad of mimetic texts that followed its publication, giving birth to a literary subgenre, the Robinsonade. A glance at the life of Defoe is also offered, so as to illustrate the context of a European world of radical scientific, political and social changes. Contexts and the critical heritage of the work are put together with symbolic data that prove relevant for the research on the imaginary inscribed in the novel. Chapter three acknowledges the aid of a number of studies in the fields of philosophy of science, analytical psychology, mythology, anthropology and religion, which enabled me to interrelate diverse levels of reading. Chapter four offers my transdisciplinary reading of Robinson Crusoe, in which I endeavor to demonstrate that the continued popularity of the novel derives from its capacity to convey concealed meanings connected with elements constitutive of the Imaginary of the Western world.
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Brott, Jonathan. "An Imperfect World, Imperfectly Retold : Mimetic Uncertainty in Early, Late, and Meta-Modern Fiction." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-189965.
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Proposing the concept of mimetic uncertainty, this project aims to provide a critical inquiry into the correspondence of unreliable narration and realism. Building on Springett (2013) and Olsen (2003), a distinction between narratorial unreliability and uncertainty is proposed to denote whether a narrator explicitly signals an awareness of their fallible narration. I thereafter indicate how narratorial uncertainty, on the one hand, can serve to evoke a “reality effect” (Barthes 1989) on a receptive aesthetic level; and on the other hand, can provide a form of historicity (Jameson 1985) and discursive realism (Auerbach 2003) on an expressive historical axis. Through this tripartite framework, realism is contextualised within the discourse of unreliable narration, as well as the specific debate which surrounds uncertainty and fallibility. The textual analysis focuses on three separate works—Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague year (1722), Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925), and finally, Tao Lin’s Taipei (2013)—with the twofold aim of (1) providing a model for approaching uncertain narration and (2) applying a historically contingent realist reading. I argue that in all three novels, emphasis on how readers may respond to uncertain narration provides insight into socio-historical and discursive points of friction surrounding their authors. The overarching ambition of this study is to provide a more substantial and historicized understanding of the stylistic devices of contemporary authorship, while more broadly signifying the unexpected critical acuity of mimetic approaches as well as the challenges and demands which metamodernist literature approaches.
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Brooke, Diana. "Daniel Defoe : 'The Family Instructor'." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2016. http://research.gold.ac.uk/18888/.
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The focus of this thesis is The Family Instructor by Daniel Defoe. There are two books: Volume I, first published in 1715, and Volume II, published in 1718. In both cases I have used the Pickering and Chatto edition, published in 2006 and edited by P.N. Furbank. The thesis examines The Family Instructor, in the contexts of family, religion and of its style, to argue that, although usually classed as a conduct book, it is not easily categorised, reflecting as it does Defoe‘s transitional status between ancient and modern times. The Introduction gives my argument. After the opening chapter, which contains critical remarks on Defoe‘s work, Chapter Two considers The Family Instructor in the context of contemporary representations of the family. The older, patriarchal model is examined. In this the husband/ and father is responsible for the entire household, whereas the modern, ―nuclear‖, version, which is also examined, relies less on status and more on contractual and emotional relationships. Chapter Three looks at religion, beginning with an overview of the many sects which are significant for an understanding of The Family Instructor. The chapter argues that although Defoe is at times close to the Latitudinarian position and despite his claim that the work is designed to apply both to Anglicans and Dissenters, his overall position is that of a Dissenter. Chapter Four examines the conduct book genre and goes on to compare the style of The Family Instructor with that of Robinson Crusoe in particular, arguing that the former does not qualify as a ―conduct book‖ and that many of the devices which Defoe uses in his first long narrative are present in The Family Instructor. The Conclusion draws together the arguments of the preceding chapters.
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Peraldo, Emmanuelle. "Daniel Defoe et l'écriture de l'histoire." Aix-Marseille 1, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008AIX10039.
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L'écriture de l'Histoire par un auteur prolifique comme Defoe reflète les mutations épistémologiques de son époque. Présent sur tous les fronts en étant à la fois espion au service du gouvernement, journaliste et écrivain, Defoe a véritablement pris part à l'histoire de la Grande-Bretagne. Il est indissociablement lié à l'Union anglo-écossaise qu'il étudie dans ses textes historiques, ses écrits journalistiques, ses pamphlets, sa correspondance et ses poèmes. Son implication dans les évènements qu'il relate lui accorde le statut d'observateur-participant de l'Histoire qu'il écrit. Son historiographie s'étend au delà de l'Histoire britannique : Defoe s'attache aussi à écrire l'Histoire du monde invisible dans plusieurs traités sur le surnaturel et la démonologie, ainsi que l'Histoire des petites gens, ce qui donne à son historiographie un caractère populaire, permettant d'observer le glissement de l'Histoire au roman (novel), qui naît du caractère évolutif du discours de l'Histoire.
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Muller, Andreas Karl Ewald. "The public voices of Daniel Defoe." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2005. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/9142/.
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This is a study of Daniel Defoe's political rhetoric and polemical strategies between the years 1697 and 1717. It explores and analyses a representative selection of what may be termed Defoe's `public voices'. In its broadest definition, these public voices are understood to be the opinions expressed and the rhetorical stances taken by Defoe in those pieces of his writing which directly or indirectly relate to the sphere of official, governmental and national discourse and activity. In the most basic sense, this thesis attempts to highlight and explain the way in which the language, imagery and concerns of Defoe's publications were shaped by the events and attitudes of the historical moment at which they were produced. In the process, this study re-situates, and thus necessarily re-evaluates, the voices and apparent meanings of some of Defoe's better known texts, while offering extensive investigations of the rhetorical strategies of publications which have previously been neglected by Defoe scholars. In the context of the above, an attempt is made to demonstrate that the poem The True-Born Englishman (1701) was not only a response to xenophobic sentiments prevalent in English society at the turn of the century but did, in fact, represent Defoe's final, summative contribution to the standing army controversy of the late 1690s. On a similar note, this thesis aims to show that the verse satire Jure Divino (1706) was the culmination of Defoe's involvement in the occasional conformity controversy of the early 1700s and constituted on important element of his campaign in favour of religious toleration. In addition, I argue that volume one of The Family Instructor (1715) was Defoe's response to the Jacobite-inspired unrest of the years 1714-15 and, as such, represented an important political act. Finally, this study offers an extensive investigation of one of Defoe's most problematic publications, An Argument Proving that the Design of Employing and Tnobling Foreigners, Is a Treasonable Conspiracy (1717). The pamphlet, I suggest, represented a highly ironic attack on one of Defoe's old adversaries, John Toland, and only develops its full rhetorical force if read in the context of the standing army controversy.
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Ehrismann, Dieter. "The ambidextrous Defoe : a study of his journalism and fiction /." [Zürich?] : D. Ehrismann, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35744515g.
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Gray, Andrew. "Crusonia, Daniel Defoe and the Atlantic imagination." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0006/NQ41167.pdf.
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Engélibert, Jean-Paul. "La postérité de Robinson Crusoé : un mythe littéraire de la modernité, 1954-1986 /." Genève : Droz, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb391753368.
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Texte remanié de--Littérature comparée--Saint-Denis--Université de la Réunion, 1996. Titre de soutenance : Mythe littéraire et modernité . Les réécritures de "Robinson Crusoé" dans les littératures de langues française et anglaise, 1954-1986.Bibliogr. p. 343-350.
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Kaboudi, Raouf. "L'argent dans les romans de Daniel Defoe : 1719-1924." Paris 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA030139.
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Ce travail vise à étudier le thème de l’argent dans les six principaux romans que Defoe (1660-1731) a écrits entre 1719 et 1724 : Robinson Crusoe (1719), Memoirs of a Cavalier (1720), Captain Singleton (1720), Moll Flanders (1722), Colonel Jack (1722) et Roxana (1724). L’étude part du constat que la Grande-Bretagne a vécu au dix-huitième siècle une révolution financière qui se reflète dans la Banque d’Angleterre, le crédit et la lettre de change qui facilite la circulation de l’argent. Le luxe, la prodigalité, la faillite et la morale marchande sont fort liés à l’accumulation excessive de l’argent. L’achat des titres, des noms et même l’accès au statut de gentleman sont, au siècle de Defoe, les aspects de la force de l’argent qui dominent les relations humaines qui sont elles-mêmes étroitement liées à l’ampleur de la poche et à l’épaisseur du portefeuille. Déchirés entre le luxe et la nécessité, plusieurs personnages tombent dans la prostitution et dans le crimeThe thesis aims at tackling the money theme in the six major novels of Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) written between 1719 and 1724: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Memoirs of a Cavalier (1720), Captain Singleton (1720), Moll Flanders (1722), Colonel Jack (1722) and Roxana (1724). The study starts from the financial revolution that Great Britain witnessed in the eighteenth century and which is reflected in the Bank of England, credit and the Bill that facilitates the circulation of money. Luxury, extravagance, bankruptcy and commercial morality are strongly linked with the excessive accumulation of money. The buying of titles, names and even the access to the status of gentleman are, in the century of Defoe, the aspects of the strength of money that dominates the human relationships that are themselves linked with the pocket and its content. Torn between luxury and necessity, Defoe’s protagonists, like the members of his society, fall in prostitution and crime
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Pohlmann, Inga. "Robinsons Erben : zum Paradigmenwechsel in der französischen Robinsonade /." Konstanz : Hartung-Gorre Verlag, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37171131r.
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Chelly, Rim. "L'écriture du surnaturel dans les oeuvres romanesques de Daniel Defoe." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030088.
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Notion vaste, vague, ambigüe, le surnaturel est un thème très présent dans les écrits de Daniel Defoe. Il est mis en question, voire évacué par la raison au siècle des Lumières. Defoe quant à lui, adopte une argumentation empirique pour défendre l’existence du surnaturel contre l’athéisme. A travers les sens, les composantes de son monde surnaturel comme peste, tempête, fantôme, Dieu et diable se manifestent. Cette écriture sensible le rend crédible. Le surnaturel apparaît aussi à travers les personnages. Leur relationnel est parfois caractérisé par la diabolisation de l’autre. Durant leur parcours, les héros vivent un déchirement entre le bien et le mal, entre Dieu et diable. Defoe souligne à travers son exploration de leur psychologie un surnaturel trompeur produit de la mélancolie, de la folie. Mais le surnaturel est aussi un ingrédient littéraire attrayant qui répond à une réalité du marché du livre. Defoe utilise l’autobiographie s’alliant l’éditeur et le lecteur pour tisser le vraisemblable et conférer crédibilité au surnaturel. Le romancier fait du temps et de l’espace un vecteur d’évaluation face au surnaturel mais ils ancrent aussi le monde invisible dans le réel. L’usage des sens permet de créer une esthétique du surnaturel qui révèle des émotions proches de « l’âme sensible ». De plus, la diversité des styles d’écriture complique la tâche de l’identification générique quant au surnaturel. Celui-ci se positionne ainsi entre l’apologétique qui le présente sous des aspects vraisemblables et le romanesque qui l’introduit dans une esthétique de l’étrange. Cette ambivalence fait de Defoe un précurseur, dont la postérité met en relief le modernismeA vast, vague and an ambiguous notion, the supernatural is an omnipresent theme in the writings of Daniel Defoe. The supernatural is questioned and even erased by reason in the age of the Enlightenment. Defoe adopts an empirical argumentation to defend the existence of the supernatural against atheism. He reveals the elements of his supernatural world such as the plague, storm, ghost, God and devil through the senses. Defoe’s writing style based on senses makes the supernatural credible. The supernatural is also made manifest through characters. Their relationship is sometimes characterized by the demonization of one another. Besides, during their life, characters balance between good and evil, between God and devil. Through the exploration of their psychology, Defoe shows an imaginary supernatural, a product of melancholy and madness. The supernatural is also an attractive literary ingredient which answers to a book trade reality. Defoe uses the form of autobiography making the editor and the reader his allies to build up the plausibility of his work and make the supernatural credible. Time and space are employed by the novelist as means, of self-evaluation for his characters vis-à-vis of the supernatural; at the same time, they anchor the invisible in reality. The use of senses helps to create an aesthetic style of the supernatural which reveals emotions close to “Sensitive Soul”. Furthermore, the diverse styles make it difficult to define the literary genre of the supernatural. It is half-way between the apologetic which presents it as plausible and the fictional which introduces it in an aesthetic style of the strange. This ambivalence makes Defoe a pioneer of the novel whose posterity highlights his modernism
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Lindner, Oliver. ""Matters of blood" Defoe and the cultures of violence." Heidelberg Winter, 2009. http://d-nb.info/999630199/04.
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Kennedy, Laurence James Dennis. "Defoe's political rhetoric, 1697-1707." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1998. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/defoes-political-rhetoric(4eff39fa-2dcb-4726-9bb0-968158944d37).html.
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Wei, Yueling. "Robinson Crusoe : a syntactical study." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361597.
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Deschamps, Yannick. "Daniel Defoe au service de l'union anglo-écossaise (1707) : essai d'interprétation des arguments utilisés par Defoe pour promouvoir l'union." Paris 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA030048.
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Defoe est indissociablement lie a l'union anglo-ecossaise. Lorsque l'act of union est soumis au parlement ecossais, en 1706-1707, le pamphletaire se trouve a edimbourg. Charge par harley de promouvoir l'union, il assiste aux seances du parlement ecossais. Il siege au comite charge d'examiner les clauses economiques de l'union. Il participe aux reunions de l'assemblee generale de l'eglise d'ecosse. Mais c'est surtout par sa plume que defoe tente de servir l'union. Dans la review et dans nombre de pamphlets, dont une serie d'essays at removing national prejudices against an union, il fait valoir que les eglises etablies d'angleterre et d'ecosse n'ont rien a craindre de l'act of union, que l'ecosse, quoique perdant son parlement, sera bien representee au parlement de westminster et que l'union stimulera l'agriculture, la peche, l'industrie et le commerce ecossais. Defoe, pour les besoins de sa propagande, prend quelques libertes avec la verite : il surestime notamment la capacite de l'union a mettre immediatement l'ecosse sur les rails du progres. Mais il a raison sur plusieurs points. Le statut des eglises d'ecosse et d'angleterre ne sera pas modifie, et l'ecosse finira par profiter de la prosperite anglaise, surtout apres 1750. Par ailleurs, defoe se montre tres habile dans la polemique qui l'oppose aux pamphletaires anti-unionistes. Son utilisation des procedes rhetoriques en particulier est remarquable. Le role de defoe dans le succes de l'union ne saurait donc etre minimiseDefoe is inextricably linked with the anglo-scottish union. When the act of union was submitted to the scottish parliament, in 1706-1707, the pamphleteer was in edinburgh. Entrusted by harley to promote the union, he attended the sessions of the scottish parliament. He sat in the committee dealing with the economic articles of the union. He participated in the meetings of the general assembly of the church of scotland. But it is essentially with his pen that defoe tried to serve the union. In the review and in numerous pamphlets, among which a series of essays at removing national prejudices against an union, he argues that the established churches of england and scotland have nothing to fear from the act of union, that scotland, although losing its parliament, will be well represented in the westminster parliament, and that the union will stimulate scottish agriculture, fishing, industry and trade. Defoe, following the requirements of propaganda, takes some liberties with the truth :he namely overestimates the capacity of the union to put the scottish economy back onto the rails of progress immediately. But he is right in several respects. The status of the churches of scotland and england will not be altered and scotland will eventually benefit from english prosperity, especially after 1750. Besides, defoe displays much talent in the controversy which brings him into conflict with the anti-unionist pamphleteers. His use of rhetorical devices in particular is remarkable. As a consequence, the role played by defoe in the success of the union should not be minimized
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Braham, Hanène. "Le péché dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Daniel Defoe : ambiguïtés et contradictions." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030101.
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Les oeuvres romanesques de Defoe retracent la déchéance morale de personnages qui sombrent peu à peu dans le péché, le vice et l’immoralité. Cette déchéance morale débute par des crimes justifiables par le besoin et la misère, mais elle se poursuit avec des crimes autres, que rien ne motive mis à part l’appât du gain. Defoe affirme que la narration de ces vies de pécheurs s’inscrit dans une visée moralisatrice bien déterminée : inspirer au lecteur l’horreur du péché et l’inciter à la vertu. Or les dénouements heureux qui clôturent la vie de ces êtres dépravés laissent planer un doute quant à l’objectif moralisateur prôné par l’auteur. En effet, en dépit de leurs crimes réitérés, les personnages de Defoe ne sont pas punis et connaissent une fin aussi paisible que prospère. Cette étude a pour objectif de démontrer que le souci majeur de Defoe n’est pas d’inciter les lecteurs à vivre selon les lois de la morale et de la religion, mais plutôt de leur indiquer la démarche à suivre pour atteindre la prospérité dans le monde des affaires et du commerce. L’analyse de l’oeuvre montre que les contradictions entre morale et argent dans l’oeuvre de Defoe sont résolues en faveur de l’argent. Accumuler les richesses, faire fructifier son capital sont les crédos de Defoe. Ces préoccupations purement matérielles relèguent au second plan toutes les autres considérations morales, éthiques et religieuses. Seul l’intérêt personnel compte et l’intégrité religieuse peut être sacrifiée lorsqu’il s’agit de réaliser la sécurité matérielle, telles sont les convictions profondes de l’auteur. Ce n’est que lorsque les personnages de Defoe assimilent ces règles qu’ils deviennent favorisés par Dieu, qu’ils obtiennent sa grâce et accèdent à la richesse. Ainsi, Ils finissent tous par incarner cet entrepreneur sage et avisé dont l’écrivain fait l’éloge dans The Complete English TradesmanDefoe’s novels are narratives of moral corruption in which the main characters progress from the most justifiable crimes to the most corrupted sins. Defoe claims that these stories of fallen men and women are intended as a warning against the evils of moral degradation. However, the absence of a just punishment for his sinners who stop short of a real repentance undermines the contention that Defoe’s purpose is straightforwardly didactic and that his major preoccupation is morality. This study is intended to demonstrate that Defoe tends to favour the economic considerations over the religious and moral principles. In fact, Defoe’s purpose is not to teach his readers moral or religious rules of behaviour but to show them how to prosper in the exciting world of business. The didactics of self-interest, the virtues of ingenuity, individual material profit, the proper management of financial resources, the judicious use and exchange of working capitals are the secrets of commercial success and should at all times be given priority over honesty. Religious integrity might, in fact, be violated in the service of commercial wealth. It is only when Defoe’s sinful characters learn these commercial values that they are redeemed and regain favour in the eyes of God. They become successful and prosperous entrepreneurs whose maxims of conduct and aims in life have much in common with Defoe’s Complete and Successful Tradesman
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Soulier-Détis, Elisabeth. "Dévoilement et dérobade : lecture de l'univers romanesque de Daniel Defoe, 1719-1724." Paris 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA030124.
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Ce travail propose une lecture des six romans de daniel defoe (robinson crusoe, 1719, memoirs of a cavalier, 1720, captain singleton, 1720 moll flanders, 1722, colonel jack, 1722, roxana, 1724). La methode retenue est une semiotique du voile, du devoilement et de la derobade, mouvements fondateurs de l'oeuvre. L'etude s'appuie sur l'analyse des reseaux d'images, organises autour du vetement, de la nudite et du deguisement. Les questions de la survie, de la segregation, de la sexualite sont posees grace a l'interrogation sur ce qui, au sens large, vet l'homme. Qu'est celui-ci dans un etat de nature, de souffrance et de verite tel qu'il est evoque par les problemes lies a ce qui le denude? comment son identite et son alienation sont-elles dites par une narration qui deguise plus qu'elle ne revele? la dialectique de la dissimulation de la confession et de la derobade est a la fois theme et procede : a ce double titre, elle est la metaphore organique qui sous-tend l'oeuvre et la methode retenueThe corpus is made up of daniel defoe's (1660?-1731) six novels : robinson crusoe (1719), memoirs of a cavalier (1720), captain singleton (1720), moll flanders (1722), colonel jack (1722), roxana 1724). The method is that of semiotics and tackles the themes of veiling, unveiling and evading. The study is based on an analysis of the networks of images referring to clothing, nakedness and disguise. The issues of survival, of segregation and sexuality are dealt with through the questioning of what, broadly speaking, clothes man. What is he in a state of nature, of suffering, of absolute truth, as delineated by his nakedness? how are his identity and alienation made clear via a narrative medium that disquises as much as it reveals? the dialectics of hiding, confessing and evading is both a theme and a technique : for this two-fold reason, it constitutes the organic metaphor founding defoe's fiction and the approach of this thesis
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Nji, Zorro Tangry. "L'exotisme en Afrique et en Amérique dans les romans de Daniel Defoe." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040281.
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Le sentiment d'exotisme, apparu dès l'époque des grandes découvertes, s'est considérablement développé en Europe à partir du milieu du XVIIe siècle. En Angleterre, au début du XVIIIe siècle, Daniel Defoe s'est distingué grâce à ses romans d'aventures (Robinson Crusoé, Farther adventures of Robinson Crusoé, Serious reflections during the life and surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Colonel Jacque, Moll Flanders, Captain Singleton et Roxana). Les protagonistes de Daniel Defoe abandonnent le pays natal pour le « merveilleux lointain ». Pendant leurs voyages, ils découvrent le sentiment d'étrangeté. Ainsi, le romancier suscite-t-il l'intérêt pour l'exotisme. Par ailleurs, ses personnages éponymes permettent à Defoe d'instaurer une critique sans relâche des civilisations africaines et américaines. Les héros de ses romans, particulièrement Robinson Crusoe et Captain Singleton, semblent rejeter ces peuples dont les cultures et les traditions leurs paraissent insensées. Cependant, ces héros incarnent souvent l'exploitation économique que les européens exercent sur ces peuples étrangers et sur leurs matières premières. Enfin, Defoe utilise aussi le monde lointain pour participer à la mode des romans d'aventures exotiques de son temps. Mais, au lieu d'admirer ce monde exotique, il l'exploite essentiellement pour l'intérêt économique : voilà ce que nous retenons dans l'ensemble de l'œuvre de ce romancier.
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Leissner, Debra Holt. "The Gender of Time in the Eighteenth-century English Novel." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278321/.
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This study takes a structuralist approach to the development of the novel, arguing that eighteenth-century writers build progressive narrative by rendering abstract, then conflating, literary theories of gendered time that originate in the Renaissance with seventeenth-century scientific theories of motion. I argue that writers from the Renaissance through the eighteenth century generate and regulate progress-as-product in their narratives through gendered constructions of time that corresponded to the generation and regulation of economic, political, and social progress brought about by developing capitalism.
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Thibeault, Dorice. "La dérivation scripturale : réécriture du Robinson Crusoé de Defoe par Tournier /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1989. http://theses.uqac.ca.
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Prior-Palmer, Elizabeth Mary Adams. "The transformation of Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels into children's classics : from initial publication to the nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302570.
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Adams, Stephen M. "Daniel Defoe's Review and authorial issues in the early English periodical /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9713219.
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Fanning, Robert Patton. "Narrating machines figurations of technology in 1 Henry VI, Robinson Crusoe, and the Matrix /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2002. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2729.
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Livingstone, Charlotte. "Daniel Defoe and the styles of history : narrative and historiography in the long seventeenth century." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.433352.
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Engélibert, Jean-Paul. "Mythe littéraire et modernité : les réécritures de Robinson Crusoé dans les littératures française et anglaise, 1954-1986." Phd thesis, Université de la Réunion, 1996. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00646138.
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Robinson Crusoé est un mythe littéraire moderne en ce qu'il élabore au début du XVIIIè siècle un nouveau statut du sujet : il construit la figure médiatrice d'un "je" souverain qui relie le social et le sacré dissociés par le "désenchantement du monde". Il fonctionne à la manière d'un mythe en proposant une solution narrative à un dilemme d'ordre idéologique. Apparu grâce à la convergence de plusieurs thématiques de la solitude insulaire (observées depuis le "Philoctète" de Sophocle) que le roman de Defoe réunit pour la première fois, le mythe de Robinson se métamorphose dans ses versions de la seconde moitié du XXè siècle. Cinq romans du corpus retenu privilégient le thème de la quête d'un ailleurs (textes de M. Tournier, G. Compere, A. Hervé, J.G. Ballard, P. Theroux), quatre celui de la reproduction insulaire du monde extérieur (W. Golding, M. Spark, J.M. Coetzee). Tout en reprenant le schéma narratif et l'organisation structurale de leur hypotexte, ces robinsonnades remettent radicalement en question le sujet. Marquées par le silence ou la mort de Dieu, elles mettent en évidence la rupture des liens à autrui et à la transcendance à l'époque dite "postmoderne". Le "je" est alors conduit à disparaître ou à se dissoudre dans une identité nouvelle. Paradoxe du mythe littéraire qui se perpétue en s'investissant de contenus sémantiques opposés à ceux qui l'ont fait naître.
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Heesen, Sabine te. "Der Blick in die kannibalische Welt : Anthropophagie in Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe, den Reisebeschreibungen zu James Cooks Weltumsegelungen und bei Marquis de Sade /." Freiburg, Br. ; Berlin Wien : Rombach, 2008. http://d-nb.info/991053265/04.
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BAESHEN, LAMIA MOHAMED SALEH. "ROBINSON CRUSOE AND "HAYY BIN YAQZAN": A COMPARATIVE STUDY (TUFAIL, DEFOE)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/183936.
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Hayy Bin Yaqzan is a famous Arabic narrative written by the Muslim philosopher Abu Bakr Ibn Tufail in the twelfth century and translated first into Latin by Edward Pocock, the son, in 1671, then into English by George Keith in 1674, by George Ashwell in 1686, and by Simon Ockley in 1708. Ibn Tufail's work is mentioned in connection with Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, which appeared in 1719, by many critics who either accentuate or repudiate its significance as a possible source. This study goes beyond the off-hand question of derivation to compare these two analogous books, not to take part in the long-standing dispute but to inquire into the premises it stands upon and investigate its motivating grounds. After pointing out the identical settings of two men each stranded on a desert island, this study proceeds to analyze the approach of each book to the relationship between man and Nature. In the process of mastering their environments, Hayy and Crusoe awaken to the providential presence behind natural forces and learn to regulate themselves within the divine scheme and to form strong relations with God. The narratives of Ibn Tufail and Defoe share a concern not only with their heroes' solitude but also with their attitudes toward society, which threatens their sense of individuality. Whereas Hayy prefers his solitary state to immersion in human society and remains on his island accompanied only by one faithful apostle, Crusoe eagerly sails back to the world of men, although he too adjusts poorly to the spirit of society and spends the rest of his life roaming the globe. Examining the technical aspects of Robinson Crusoe and Hayy Bin Yaqzan, their narrative methods, their chronological order, their structure, style, and delineation of character, the study concludes that although the two books belong to different genres, they are still more similar than ordinarily assumed. It also finds that the question of indebtedness, which may never be resolved, is less significant than the broader similarities in cultural, political, and religious circumstances which may be at work.
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Molet-Sauvaget, Anne. "Madagascar dans l'oeuvre de Daniel Defoe étude de la contribution de cet auteur à l'histoire de l'île /." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37616617d.
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