Journey to the centre of the self : time and space in Verne's Voyages extraordinaires / by William Butcher
| dc.contributor | Butcher, William The U of Buckingham |
| dc.contributor.author | Butcher, William, 1951- |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:54:15Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:54:15Z |
| dc.date.created | 1990 |
| dc.date.issued | 1990-09-24 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1408 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1408 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1408 |
| dc.description.abstract | Mode of access: Online. OTA website Available as a compressed tar file Contents: ascii 1408-1.txt. Index ; ascii 1408-2.txt. Note on author, Blurb ; ascii 1408-3.txt. Journey to the centre of the self |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (3 files : ca. 9.04, 3.92, 375 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Academic dissertations -- Great Britain -- 20th century |
| dc.title | Journey to the centre of the self : time and space in Verne's Voyages extraordinaires / by William Butcher |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 403235 |
| files.count | 4 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
This item is
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Publicly Available
and licensed under:Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Files for this item
Download all local files for this item (393.78 KB)
- Name
- index-1408.txt
- Size
- 9.04 KB
- Format
- Text file
- Description
- Version of the work in plain text format
Index
Aborigines (Australian), 50, 51, 112
see also blacks
adverbs
in general, 57, 119-20, 124, 125, 130, 131,
139, 140, 142
past-context, 120
present-context, 120
agoraphobia, 8, 9
altruism, 103, 106-8
Americas, 11, 14, 103, 124
Americans, 21, 30, 48
anonymous narrator (EA), 52, 53, 89-91
anthropomorphism, 96
see also man-machine
anti-Semitism, 48-9
see also Jews; racism
anticipations
scientific, 2
in plots, 30, 34, 76, 171
anxiety, 26, 42, 58, 99, 109, 114
arborescences, 22-5, 27, 104
Ardan (AL, TL), 38, 44, 71, 72, 75, 84, 113
Aronnax (20M), 72, 94, 100, 107, 161
Arthur Gordon Pym, The Narrative of, 14, 18, 29
author within fiction, 28-30, 37, 47, 90
see also narrator; Verne, Michel
auto-cannibalisation, see cannibalisation
auto-cannibalism, see cannibalism
Aventures de trois Russes et trois Anglais, 13
Axel (VCT), 61-70, 73-4
Balzac, 1, 32, 34, 166
Barthes, Roland, 38, 76
Beckett, Samuel, 152
beginnings of works, see openings of works
see also endin . . .
- Name
- readme-1408.txt
- Size
- 3.93 KB
- Format
- Text file
- Description
- Version of the work in plain text format
(Note on the author:)
Dr William Butcher has studied at the Universities
of Warwick, Lancaster and London and at the Ecole
Normale Sup{rieure. He has taught in Malaysia and
at French institutions including the School for
Officers (Saint-Cyr), the National Economics
Institute (INSEE) and the Ecole Normale Sup{rieure
de Saint-Cloud. Before his current post at
Buckingham University, he was Head of Languages at
a postgraduate establishment in Versailles
(ISIPCA) and Matre de Conf{rences at the National
Administration School (ENA). As well as publishing
numerous articles, he has co-written a book
entitled Mississippi Madness: Canoeing for Cancer.
In addition to his literary interests, Dr Butcher
researches in French society and in Computational
Linguistics.
(BLURB:)
The works of Jules Verne have undergone a major
reevaluation in France in recent years, based on a
recognition of their sustained literary value and
their unique influence on subsequent creative
writers. In Britain, ho . . .
- Name
- verne-1408.txt
- Size
- 375.3 KB
- Format
- Text file
- Description
- Version of the work in plain text format
JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE SELF
Dr Butcher has also written Mississippi Madness
(in collaboration with Nicholas Francis)
JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE SELF
TIME AND SPACE IN VERNE'S 'VOYAGES EXTRAORDINAIRES'
William Butcher
M
William Butcher
To the memory of my Father and
Grandfather
CONTENTS
Contents vii
List of figures xi
Foreword by Ray Bradbury xiv
Acknowledgements xv
Reference system xvii
1 THE WARRIOR OF THE UNKNOWN 1
2 IN SEARCH OF LOST STRUCTURE 12
Lost Between Two Shores 12
The Strogoff Syndrome . . .
