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Re: genre "robinsonade"

From: <Rfbagby~at~aol.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 13:13:52 -0400
To: jvf~at~gilead.org.il (Jules Verne Forum)

>As for the continuation of the robinsonade genre into the 20th century,
>there have been a number of science fiction robinsonades involving
>crash-landings on other planets. I remember in particular an entertaining
>s.f. film, circa 1950, called World Without End, which combined that theme
>with the premise of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. It is indeed a genre
>inexhaustible.
>Tom
REPLY: Time travel itself frequently has Robinsonade elements, clearly acknowledged by the protoagonist in THAT genre's fountainhead, Mark Twain's CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT (yet another tale of "advanced" technology enabling a "castaway" to impose himself -- to an extent -- upon "primitives"!)
H. G. Wells's TIME MACHINE can similarly be seen as a traveller finding himself stranded between warring tribes (predictably highlighted in the various movie adaptions.) Yet another variant is the Alternate World, as Wells explores in MEN LIKE GODS (where contemporary Engiish accidentally transported to a parallel utopia split between those who admire it and those -- led by a Churchill parody -- who want to conquer it.)
Ross
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