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Robinson Crusoe’s translation and spreading of marine spirit in pre-modern China
Journal of Marine and Island Cultures, 2016 Western marine literature classics were translated into Pre-modern China, and Robinson Crusoe is one of the most representative. Various Chinese versions were rendered with the political and educational push of the time.
Qinghui Shen
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TRANSFORMATION OF СLASSIC DRAMA MOTIFS IN GAME OF THRONES SERIES / ТРАНСФОРМАЦИЯ МОТИВОВ КЛАССИЧЕСКОЙ ДРАМАТУРГИИ В СЕРИАЛЕ «ИГРА ПРЕСТОЛОВ» [PDF]
Наука телевидения, 2019 Game of Thrones series that has become one of the most widely discussed TV shows of our time, is analyzed from the perspective of art history and cultural studies.
SALNIKOVA EKATERINA V. / САЛЬНИКОВА Е.В.
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Entre glace et feu : l’arche fracassée du Pays des Fourrure
Strenae, 2013 The singular, nearly paratopic isolate described in The Fur Country can be read as an attempt at a "forced" phalanstery, where science and faith combine to rescue the survivors of a terrible catastrophe on the unexplored fringes of the Canadian Far North.
Isabelle-Rachel Casta
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Strenae, 2015 In 1879, when Karl May adapted one of the many existing translations of Gabriel Ferry's novel, Le Coureur des bois (1850), in Germany, he made a whole slew of changes—from the novel’s incipit and more condensed action, to simplifying relationships ...
Herta-Luise Ott
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ADVENTURE TOURISM AN INSUFFICENTLY EXPLOITED OPPORTUNITY IN BIHOR COUNTY, ROMANIA [PDF]
Analele Universităţii din Oradea: Seria Geografie, 2014 The routine of everyday life, the stifling society, the desire of novel and unexpected alongside the unlimited access to information got the modern man on the threshold of a new experience: adventure.
Anamaria Liana LĂZURAN (GIURĂU) +1 more
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« Scharlih » unchained. Traces de Karl May chez Arno Schmidt
Strenae, 2015 This article highlights the relationship between two German-language writers who, at first glance, have nothing to do with each other: adventure novels author Karl May (1842-1912), and Arno Schmidt (1914-1979) known for his avant-garde writing with ...
Georges Felten
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Gaming the heart of darkness [PDF]
, 2018 The history of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness has been one of adaptation and change. The enduring story is based upon Conrad’s experiences in the Congo in the 1890s and has been published as a novella in 1902.
Donald, Iain, Pittner, Fruzsina
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Strenae, 2013 Drawing inspiration from the scientific travel stories that abounded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and more particularly from the works of Jules Verne, Hugh Lofting's "Doctor Dolittle" series nevertheless constantly distanced itself from ...
Anne Struve-Debeaux
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African adventure and metropolitan dissent in Thomas Hardy’s Two on a Tower (1882) [PDF]
, 2019 Recent studies of late 19th-century imperialism have challenged postcolonial arguments for the existence of a uniform imperial culture in colonial Britain that unquestioningly supported its overseas expansionist agenda.
Jackson, R
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Relire Maïa l’abeille aujourd’hui
Strenae, 2013 Maya the Bee, a bestseller in German literature in the early 1920s, is hardly known today in its original version. The author of this paper puts forth a rereading of the work by emphasizing the variety of the story, at the confluence of several popular ...
Mathilde Lévêque
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