Robinsonade (/ˌrɒbɪnsəˈneɪd/ ROB-in-sən-AYD) is a literary genre of fiction wherein the protagonist is suddenly separated from civilization, usually by...
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The Swiss Family Robinson (category Robinsonades)
on the island. The book is the most successful of a large number of "Robinsonade" novels that were written in response to the success of Daniel Defoe's...
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after famous inventor Thomas Edison, formed in the same way the term "Robinsonade" was formed from Robinson Crusoe. Usually first published in cheaply...
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Robinson Crusoe (category Robinsonades)
television, and radio, that its name is used to define a genre, the Robinsonade. Robinson Crusoe (the family name coming from the German name "Kreutznaer")...
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characterization and convey her courage and love. The book can be considered a "Robinsonade", meaning that it tells the story of a character who must survive on...
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a South Pacific island, the only survivors of a shipwreck. A typical Robinsonade – a genre of fiction inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe – and...
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Robinson Crusoe in 1719 (spawning so many imitations it defined a genre, Robinsonade), adventure stories written specifically for children began in the nineteenth...
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illusion and nothing but the aesthetic illusion of the small and big Robinsonades. It is, on the contrary, the anticipation of "bourgeois society," which...
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L. Grant, and included in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew. The Robinsonade follows a shipwrecked drug-trafficking surgeon who, left with only a...
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Sword-and-sandal Sword-and-sorcery Sword-and-soul Wuxia Nautical Pirate Robinsonade Spy: fiction involving espionage and establishment of modern intelligence...
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After Point Blank, Boorman worked with Marvin and Toshiro Mifune on the robinsonade Hell in the Pacific (1968), which tells a fable of two representative...
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of her survival mode. This work belongs to the literary genre of the Robinsonade, in that – like other works of its era – it emulates Daniel Defoe's 1719...
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Cast Away (category Robinsonades)
Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. Hanks plays...
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genres, notably war novels, crime novels, detective novels, sea stories, Robinsonades, spy stories (as in the works of John Buchan, Eric Ambler and Ian Fleming)...
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Marooned with Ed Stafford Ed Stafford: Into The Unknown Walking the Amazon Robinsonade Kurp, Josh (April 7, 2013). "'Naked And Afraid' Star Explains How She...
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after a global viral outbreak. The season first aired on July 27, 2010. Robinsonade "The Colony". Metal Flowers Media. October 13, 2009. Archived from the...
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poet Alma mater Brasenose College, Oxford Genre Survivalist fiction robinsonade adventure sea story science fiction essay historical fiction stageplay...
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Lost (TV series) (category Robinsonades)
Lost is an American science fiction adventure drama television series created by Jeffrey Lieber, J. J. Abrams, and Damon Lindelof that aired on ABC from...
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Mars in fiction (section Robinsonades)
preservation is prioritized and humans live in domed cities. Martian robinsonades—stories of astronauts stranded on Mars—emerged in the 1950s with works...
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many times over the next several decades. It is one of the few early "Robinsonades" that focuses on girls. Although its basis is in survival literature...
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Twain English 1885 20 million Picaresque novel, Bildungsroman, satire, Robinsonade The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ Sue Townsend English 1982 20...
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has lived with indigenous tribes and is a primitive skills specialist. Robinsonade Dawn, Randee (June 11, 2010). "Odd couple battle elements in "Dual Survival""...
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Starship Troopers (category Robinsonades)
Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. Written in a few weeks in reaction to the US suspending nuclear...
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like Robinson Crusoe from his desert island paradise. The theme of the robinsonade would stay with Verne throughout his life and appear in many of his novels...
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Masterman Ready, or the Wreck of the Pacific is a robinsonade children's novel published in 1841 by Frederick Marryat. The book follows the adventures...
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action-adventure video game, developed by Unreal Software. The main goal of the Robinsonade game is to survive on a dangerous island and to find a way to return...
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Robinson Crusoe, and the story can be described as a science fiction robinsonade set on Mars. The similarity is made explicit by the first edition cover...
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Mars Robinson Crusoe on Mars Stranded Martian Oxia Palus quadrangle Robinsonade Survival film The film opened in Korea during the three-day Hangul Day...
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Godfrey Morgan (category Robinsonades)
trio manage to work together and survive on the island. The novel is a robinsonade – a play on Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. The narrative...
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Czarodziejski okręt (The Magic Ship) is a nautical robinsonade with science fiction elements for young readers written by Władysław Umiński and serialized...
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