Robinsonade

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English

Noun

Robinsonade (plural Robinsonades)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of robinsonade.
    • 1973, Karl Marx, translated by Martin Nicolaus, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 83:
      The individual and isolated hunter and fisherman, with whom Smith and Ricardo begin, belongs among the unimaginative conceits of the eighteenth-century Robinsonades, which in no way express merely a reaction against over-sophistication and a return to a misunderstood natural life, as cultural historians imagine.
    • 1996 summer, Manfred Jahn, “Windows of Focalization: Deconstructing and Reconstructing a Narratological Concept”, in Style, volume 30, number 2, →ISSN, page 257:
      The reader has so far followed Mr. Lecky, the novella’s single reflector, on a Robinsonade through a deserted department store.
    • 2013 September 16, Kent Russell, “The Lost Boy of Restoration Island”, in The New Republic, volume 244, number 15:
      If it touches on isolation, tabulae rasae, or close encounters of a new kind, or if it has a character commenting on society from the outside—it’s a Robinsonade.

Dutch

Noun

Robinsonade f (plural Robinsonades or Robinsonaden)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of robinsonade

German

Etymology

Coined by Johann Gottfried Schnabel.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Robinsonade f (genitive Robinsonade, plural Robinsonaden)

  1. robinsonade

Declension

Declension of Robinsonade
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Robinsonade die Robinsonaden
genitive einer der Robinsonade der Robinsonaden
dative einer der Robinsonade den Robinsonaden
accusative eine die Robinsonade die Robinsonaden

References

  1. ^ Johann Gottfried Schnabel (1731) Die Insel Felsenburg (in German), page 8:
    Wie hälts, Landsmann! Kan man sich auch darauf verlassen, daß deine Geschichte keine blossen Gedichte, Lucianische Spaas-Streiche, zusammen geraspelten Robinsonaden-Späne und dergleichen sind?

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