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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    television, and radio, that its name is used to define a genre, the Robinsonade. Robinson Crusoe (the family name corrupted from the German name "Kreutznaer")...
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  • after a global viral outbreak. The season first aired on July 27, 2010. Robinsonade "The Colony". Metal Flowers Media. 2009-10-13. Archived from the original...
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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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    poet Alma mater Brasenose College, Oxford Genre Survivalist fiction robinsonade adventure sea story science fiction essay historical fiction stageplay...
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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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  • 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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    orchestra of Russian folk instruments The Rhythms of Time Carnival Auftakt Robinsonade (from the film "My Love in the Third Year of Study") Heart in the palm...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • explored previously in fiction by Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe and the robinsonade genre) and Voltaire (Candide), and more recently by William Golding (Lord...
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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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  • 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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    film, television and radio that its name was used to define a genre, Robinsonade. The novel features Man Friday, Crusoe's personal assistant. It is likely...
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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • woodsman who filmed his life and survival in the Alaskan wilderness Robinsonade "Home - Les Stroud - Survivorman". http://www.lesstroud.ca/survivorman/episodes...
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    Point Blank, Boorman worked with Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune on the robinsonade Hell in the Pacific (1968), which tells a fable of two representative...
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  • Marooned with Ed Stafford Ed Stafford: Into The Unknown Walking the Amazon Robinsonade Discovery Channel, "Naked and Afraid XL", Discovery Channel, 2015 People...
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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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    of war fiction, children's literature, travel narratives (such as the Robinsonade), the social problem novel and psychological fiction. What constitutes...
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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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