Sexual Polarities: Shelley’s Frankenstein and Polar Exploration as a Search for Origins Beyond ‘woman’

This paper is about our parents and our predecessors in life and in literature. It specifically interrogates the choice of Polar landscapes for the playing out of narratives of gender difference in stories of Arctic and Antarctic exploration. I have chosen to pay attention to three narratives: Shack...

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Published in:Nordlit
Main Author: Polly Gould
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Norwegian
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2008
Subjects:
Mary Shelly
Frankenstein
Ursula Le Guin
Ernest Henry Shackelton
Polar Landscapes
Norwegian literature
PT8301-9155
Arctic
Antarctic
Antarc*
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1189
https://doaj.org/article/cab897ae611e44c08e6b0dca3836e740
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Summary:This paper is about our parents and our predecessors in life and in literature. It specifically interrogates the choice of Polar landscapes for the playing out of narratives of gender difference in stories of Arctic and Antarctic exploration. I have chosen to pay attention to three narratives: Shackleton's South, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Ursula Le Guin's short story Sur. They all take place in the icy expanse of the Arctic and Antarctic. I will read them in the light of the question of origins: ‘where do I come from?'

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