Robinsonade

See also: robinsonade

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, no diminutive)

1. alternative letter-case form of robinsonade