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When Defoe published The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe in 1719, he could not have imagined that Crusoe, Friday, and a footprint in the sand would enjoy global recognition 300 years later. Why-and how-does Crusoe's story resonate today? There is no shortage of explanations for the longevity of Defoe's creation, which has been interpreted as both religious allegory and frontier myth, with Crusoe seen as an example of the self-sufficient adventurer and the archetypal colonizer and capitalist. Defoe's original has been reimagined multiple times in legions of Robinsonade or castaway stories. But there is still much more to say-the Crusoe myth is far from spent. This wide-ranging collection brings together eleven scholars who suggest new and unfamiliar ways of thinking about this most familiar of works, and who ask us to consider the enduring appeal of "Crusoe," more recognizable today than ever before.

Defoe, Daniel, --- Crusoe, Robinson

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Quels rapports entre une île déserte, un télégraphe, un spectre, une foule, une autopsie, une amazone nue, une machine à remonter le temps et des aiguilles d'horloge en guise de jambes ? ces choses sont parmi les leçons que la littérature enseigne et de ces choses sur lesquelles la littérature donne de meilleures leçons que les encyclopédies. il est question de Daniel Defoe, Alexandre Dumas et Jules verne, Zola et Léon Bloy, Marcel thiry et robert Desnos et, pour finir, Georges simenon.Leurs leçons portent sur l'habileté de l'espèce, les techniques de transmission, la sociologie des pratiques culturelles, l'expérience du temps vécu ou bien encore les déraillements que les machines, outils servant d'organes, introduisent dans le réel.

Criticism --- Literature --- Transmission --- Alienation (Philosophy) in literature --- Imaginaire (philosophie) --- Simenon, Georges, --- Defoe, Daniel, --- Critique et interprétation. --- Literature and technology --- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature --- Industry and literature --- Technology and literature --- Technology

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The beginning is both internal and external to the text it initiates, and that noncoincidence points to the text’s vexed relation with its outside. Hence the nontrivial self-reflexivity of any textual beginning, which must bear witness to the self-grounding quality of the literary work— its inability either to comprise its inception or to externalize it in an authorizing exteriority. In a different but related way, the fact that they must begin renders our lives and our desires opaque to us; what Freud called “latency” marks not only sexuality but human thought with a self-division shaped by asynchronicity.From Henry James’s New York Edition prefaces to George Eliot’s epigraphs, from Ovid’s play with meter to Charles Dickens’s thematizing of the ex nihilo emergence of character, from Wallace Stevens’s abstract consideration of poetic origins to James Baldwin’s, Carson McCullers’s, and Eudora Welty’s descriptions of queer childhood, writers repeatedly confront the problem of inception. Inception introduces a fundamental contingency into texts and psyches alike: in the beginning, all could have been otherwise.For Kevin Ohi, the act of inception, and the potential it embodies, enables us to see making and unmaking coincide within the mechanism of creation. In this sense, Inceptions traces an ethics of reading, the possibility of perceiving, in the ostensibly finished forms of lives and texts, the potentiality inherent in their having started forth.

American literature --- English literature --- Openings (Rhetoric). --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Baldwin, James. --- Beginnings. --- Defoe, Daniel. --- Dickens, Charles. --- Eliot, George. --- Friedrich, Su. --- James, Henry. --- McCullers, Carson. --- Milton, John. --- Oppen, George. --- Ovid. --- Shakespeare, William. --- Stevens, Wallace. --- Welty, Eudora. --- Wordsworth, William. --- beginnings. --- birth. --- contingency. --- literary form. --- origins. --- potentiality.