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Jules Verne
Timothy A. Unwin
其他書名
Journeys in Writing
出版Liverpool University Press, 2005-01-01
主題Literary Criticism / Science Fiction & Fantasy
ISBN08532345829780853234586
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4OloCzB9kksC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A hundred years after his death, Jules Verne (1828-1905) has in the popular imagination become synonymous with prediction of the future. Yet the actual texts of Verne's major novels (the vast series known as the Voyages extraordinaires) still remain unknown to many. In the English-speaking world, translations of Verne's best-known novels (Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon) have often contained wholesale distortions of his plots and characters, and the popular (and false) image of Verne as a foreteller of the future often comes not through what he actually wrote, but through films and other adaptations of his work. It is against this background of misrepresentation and misconception that the present study has been produced. Verne was, Unwin argues, a master of the self-conscious novel, his work a pastiche of science discourse, ...