ISBN : 9782070112708 1 Dans le sillage des grands explorateurs, Robert Louis Stevenson succombe à son tour à Pappel des îles lorsqu'en 1887 il quitte son Écosse natale et, après un court séjour ...américain, s'en va sillonner les mers du Sud dans l'espoir d'y trouver un climat plus clément pour sa santé fragile, et plus propice à l'écriture. L'introduction s'achève par une évocation des « sillages » de Stevenson, ou des nombreux auteurs qui se lanceront sur ses traces et revendiqueront son influence sur eux, malgré la réception parfois négative que lui réservera la critique, jusqu'à ce que soit plus récemment redécouvert son art de la fiction. 4 Le volume s'ouvre ensuite sur la traduction de Veillées des îles par Mathieu Duplay, remarquable par son effort de précision dans la retranscription du contexte socioculturel polynésien, à travers un apparat critique très détaillé. Outre cette précision linguistique et scientifique, cette belle traduction s'efforce également de rendre justice à la poésie de la langue stevensonienne, comme en témoigne le premier paragraphe de La Plage de Falesa, particulièrement réussi en la matière : « Quand l'île m'apparut pour la première fois, ce n'était ni la nuit ni l'aube. En outre, on regrette que l'apparat critique n'explique par certaines références culturelles et préfère avoir recours à des équivalences plus ou moins proches de l'original : le capitaine traite par exemple son équipage de « F.F.V.'s3 » en anglais, ce qui signifie « flying fish voyager », un terme péjoratif faisant référence aux marins capables de naviguer uniquement dans des conditions favorables, comme l'explique Roslyn Jolly dans son édition des South Sea Tales4.
This wide-ranging collection is the first to set Robert Louis Stevenson in detailed social, political and literary contexts.
The book takes account of both Stevenson's extraordinary thematic and ...generic diversity and his geographical range. The chapters explore his relation to late nineteenth-century publishing, psychology, travel, the colonial world, and the emergence of modernism in prose and poetry. Through the pivotal figure of Stevenson, the collection explores how literary publishing and cultural life changed across the second half of the nineteenth century. Stevenson emerges as a complex writer, author both of hugely popular boys' stories and of seminally important adult novels, as well as the literary figure who debated with Henry James the theory of fiction and the nature of realism.
The collection shows how interest in the unconscious and changes in the conception of childhood demand that we re-evaluate our ideas of his writing. Individual essays by international experts trace Stevenson' literary contexts from Scotland to the South Pacific, and show him to be one of the key writers for understanding the growing sense of globalisation and cultural heterogeneity in the late nineteenth century.
Key Features
Sets Stevenson in his literary, scientific and political contextsCovers a broad range of Stevenson's fiction and non-fictionWritten by a team of international scholarsIncludes an authoritative introduction and select bibliography
Curl up by the fire, light some candles, watch the freezing rain, and fall into these worlds of secrets, madness, nightmares, and violence: less comforting warm hug, more deliciously spinetingling ...blade slipped between the ribs. Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Viking While The Turn of the Screw and Jane Eyre may come to mind first, Stevenson's "shilling shocker" implanted in our mass consciousness, is one of those stories everyone feels like they've read.
Of the Saranac bas-relief, the New York Times article from the day of the unveiling described the intent of the artist: “Stevenson is shown walking on the veranda where…he says in his letters he ...gained inspiration for Ballantrae and the great Scribner essays. Carved into granite in the Black Hills of South Dakota on land that had been illegally seized from the Lakota tribe during a gold rush in the 1870s, this national memorial has also been the subject of criticism for aspects of the actions of each of the men it memorializes. Cite This Article DOI: 10.3201/eid2703.ac2703 Original Publication Date: February 10, 2021 Related Links * About Cover Art * Past Covers * Past Issues Table of Contents – Volume 27, Number 3—March 2021 Comments Please use the form below to submit correspondence to the authors or contact them at the following address: Terence Chorba, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Mailstop US 12-4, Atlanta, GA 30329-4027, USA Return Address Send To Send To authors Authors editors Editors Comments 10000 character(s) remaining.
This article represents the first illustration of the tools of disability stylistics on a literary text. It does so by examining the representation of blindness in an extract from Robert Louis ...Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island in which the character Pew is introduced. The article outlines concepts relating to the othering of disabled people before describing two major cultural stereotypes of disability that scholars argue persist to the present day. These are the pathetic and pitiful disabled person and the disabled individual as evil. Disability scholars have identified language as a key area for the construction and perpetuation of stereotypes of disability. However, scholarship has tended to focus on labels, or discourse with language use considered in context. This article confirms that labels and basic description are crucial elements through a consideration of noun phrases. Nevertheless, the article also utilises the models of transitivity, speech acts and im/politeness, and elements of the framework of appraisal. The article identifies a pivotal moment in the extract in which Pew is transformed from a potentially (though ambiguous) pitiful figure into a realisation of the evil stereotype, and shows that all stylistic frameworks outlined permit these depictions to be analysed. The article calls for the tools to be used to test the claims that stereotypes persist into the present day. It also concludes that disability stylistics should be tested on representations of other disabilities. It argues that the tools need also to be used to analyse other disability stereotypes.
This essay argues that depictions of small craft sailing in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (1883) indicate an underlying crisis in the kinship structures of the age of sail as wrought by ...industrial capitalism's rising reliance on steamships. Theorizing an older form of "maritime kinship" and its continuation in "oceanic kinship," this essay re-evaluates the gap between late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century seafaring fiction and bridges the two through a continued connection to the sea and maintained sailing heritage. Countering a rhetoric of loss, it presents Treasure Island's nearness to the sea as highlighting an environmental interconnection that might allow us to reimagine how we relate to oceans and provide key approaches to confronting the current climate crisis.
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