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Re: query about JV's Strogoff

From: Brian Taves <briantaves1879~at~yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:23:17 -0700 (PDT)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Art,
 
You might direct this person to a discussion some years back in the Forum on the generic and narrative structures in Strogoff, how it functions within adventure and melodrama conventions, and so on.  All the necessary points were covered in detail then.
 
There is a certain tendency in some circles to label and reduce everything to the western form, which I think is evident in the query.  For instance, some claim Star Wars is a western.  To my thinking, placing Strogoff in this context is no less oversimplified.

Brian

From: aevans2 tds.net <aevans2~at~tds.net>
Subject: query about JV's Strogoff
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Date: Sunday, May 22, 2011, 3:47 PM


Dear fellow Vernians,

Here is a query from someone on another listserv.  How would you answer him?
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Is Jules Verne's Michael Strogoff: (The) Courier of the Czar pretty much a straight-forward melodramatic military romance in what would become the manner of a Hollywood "Cavalry and Indians" film for kids in, let's euphemistically say, "the classic mode" — pre-BROKEN ARROW (1950)?  Specifically, are there complexities in identification and sympathy, or are we supposed to pretty much just root for Michael Strogoff, the Czar, and the Russians, against the traitorous ex-Col. Ivan Ogareff and the savage Tartars?
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All best,
Art
Received on Sat 28 May 2011 - 00:23:26 IDT

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