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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-
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dc.date.created 1990
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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
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dc.title Journey to the centre of the self : time and space in Verne's Voyages extraordinaires / by William Butcher
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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
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(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 . . .
										
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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











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                  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 . . .
										

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