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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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:cab897ae611e44c08e6b0dca3836e740 2023-05-15T14:01:57+02:00 Sexual Polarities: Shelley’s Frankenstein and Polar Exploration as a Search for Origins Beyond ‘woman’ Polly Gould 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1189 https://doaj.org/article/cab897ae611e44c08e6b0dca3836e740 EN NO eng nor Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/1189 https://doaj.org/toc/0809-1668 https://doaj.org/toc/1503-2086 doi:10.7557/13.1189 0809-1668 1503-2086 https://doaj.org/article/cab897ae611e44c08e6b0dca3836e740 Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, Vol 12, Iss 1 (2008) Mary Shelly Frankenstein Ursula Le Guin Ernest Henry Shackelton Polar Landscapes Norwegian literature PT8301-9155 article 2008 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1189 2022-12-30T23:45:13Z 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?' Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Antarctic Nordlit 12 1 103 |
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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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Sexual Polarities: Shelley’s Frankenstein and Polar Exploration as a Search for Origins Beyond ‘woman’ |
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