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: Gould, Polly
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Norwegian
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2008
Subjects:
Mary Shelly
Frankenstein
Ursula Le Guin
Ernest Henry Shackelton
Polar Landscapes
Antarctic
Arctic
Antarc*
Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/1189
https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1189
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spelling ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/1189 2023-05-15T13:32:51+02:00 Sexual Polarities: Shelley’s Frankenstein and Polar Exploration as a Search for Origins Beyond ‘woman’ Gould, Polly 2008-02-01 application/pdf https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/1189 https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1189 nor nor Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/1189/1130 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/1189 doi:10.7557/13.1189 Copyright (c) 2008 Polly Gould http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC-BY Nordlit; No 23 (2008): Arctic Discourses; 103-118 Nordlit; Nr 23 (2008): Arctic Discourses; 103-118 1503-2086 0809-1668 Mary Shelly Frankenstein Ursula Le Guin Ernest Henry Shackelton Polar Landscapes info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed article Fagfellevurdert artikkel 2008 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1189 2021-08-16T15:26:29Z 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 Arctic University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing Antarctic Arctic Nordlit 12 1 103
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Frankenstein
Ursula Le Guin
Ernest Henry Shackelton
Polar Landscapes
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