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Jules Verne et ses héros
Sans quitter le vert paradis des lectures enfantines, Jules Verne montre aujourd'hui un second visage : celui d'un écrivain pour tous les âges de l'homme. Objet de colloques et de thèses, scruté par Foucault ou Butor, Deleuze, Serres ou Derrida en France comme à l'étranger, il paraît être un témoin de la modernité et sa mythologie fait revivre notre imaginaire d'une façon à la fois profonde et chatoyante.
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Beyond the Sea: Echoes of Jules Verne in \The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou\
Wes Anderson's films often contain intertextual connections to literary predecessors in a relationship that's not quite adaptation but more a series of interconnected allusions. Anderson's Life Aquatic shares several common themes with Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1870), including spectacles of design in the Nautilus and the Belafonte that overtly connect these ships to their captains, their troubled protagonists, and competing versions of masculinity highlighted by interaction with other male characters.
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Jules Verne
Contre une vulgate tenace qui continue de célébrer en Jules Verne le thuriféraire aveugle du progrès, cet essai s'attache à remettre sous tension l'idée d'un Verne champion irréfléchi de l'entreprise humaine. Buissonnant dans le touffu massif vernier, il y puise de quoi déconstruire une image qui doit beaucoup à la politique éditoriale d'Hetzel, désireux d'arrimer les Voyages extraordinaires aux valeurs rationalites, positivistes et expansionnistes qui dominent, tant sous le Second Empire que sous la Troisième République, une France lancée dans l'aventure industrielle et coloniale.
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Jules Verne's Dream Machines
This article discusses how Verne mythologizes and poeticizes his fictional machines. More than just a means for solving problems and/or for providing access to exotic geographical locales, Verne's technology is portrayed as being intrinsically poetic. Bridging the worlds of the industrial and the artistic, Verne's machines constitute a new kind of objet d'art. Anthropomorphized to make them seem less coldly mechanical, these devices take on a life of their own and exist in a richly symbiotic relationship with their creators. Such machines transport the readers of Verne's Voyages extraordinaires beyond the mimetic, serving both as a means to build verisimilitude and as a steppingstone to transcend the real.
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‘Textes fossiles’: The Metatextual Geology of Verne's Voyage au centre de la Terre
Despite the compelling parallels between George Sand's Laura: voyage dans le cristal and Jules Verne's Voyage au centre de la Terre (both 1864), Sand's place within the intertextual fabric of Verne's novel has been occluded. By shifting the terms of the debate away from the vexed issues of borrowing, influence, or inspiration, and focusing on Verne's sustained engagement with Sand's work as a specifically geological fiction, this article sheds new light on the imbrication of the scientific and the fictional in Voyage au centre de la Terre, whereby geological and palaeontological references not only guarantee the text's verisimilitude and underwrite its didactic objectives, but also fulfil an important metatextual function. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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Ekphrasis in Magritte and Verne: Voyages extraordinaires to the Center of Art
[...] the simultaneity of aesthetic concerns in the works of Magritte and Verne will, I think, be of greater interest and import than pure rhetorical description. [...] both Verne and Magritte test the visionary limits of language- both writerly and painterly.
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Visions of Science and Technology, Part 2
[...] in A Natural and Artificial Homeland: [...] we hope to see all of you at the 2010 F81H conference in Milwaukee (Nov. 11-14, at the Hyatt Regency), where our keynote speaker will be film theorist and historian Laura Mulvey.
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Catastrophe and Development in the Adventure Romance
Adventure romance emerged in the 1880s precisely when the pace of modernization on a global scale was being stepped up by the New Imperialism; catastrophe migrated into this form shortly thereafter in order to modernize it and make it more capable of modernization. Although a few theorists have aligned romance with modernity, nobody has located its modernity in its unique spatiotemporal structure. Here, Murray discusses a new argument: it first asserts that the chronotope of catastrophe smuggles the spatiotemporal configurations necessary for modern economic developments to take hold into the romances of H. Rider Haggard, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Jules Verne and then shows how Bram Stoker's The Snake's Pass (1890) voices profound ambivalence about catastrophe's developmental potential.
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Unnumbered Polypi
(Only remaining seems to suggest that the nautilus was near death, though it may have been in retreat.) Bennett detached the contracted body from the remaining shell fragments by severing two oval muscular attachments, then placed it in spirits, after making a pen-and-ink sketch of its external form. [...] the entry on Bishop Pontopiddan in the Biographie universelle says nothing of Krakens.
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