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

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