The Modern Afterlives of Old Irish Travel Narratives : From Gulliver to Star Trek /
This book explores the reception of the medieval Irish tradition of fantastic journey tales in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels , C.S. Lewis's The Voyage of the Dawn Treader , Umberto Eco's Baudolino , and the science fiction television franchises Star Trek and Stargate . In d...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
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Literary Reception & Art Reception ;
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Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026
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Call Number: PK6530
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Figures and Table
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: These Are the Voyages...
- 1.1 The Old Irish 'Genre System', Otherworlds, and Utopias
- 1.2 The Tropological Mode
- 1.3 The Intertextual Matrix
- 1.4 Structure and Route
- 2 C. S. Lewis, the Dawn Treader , and St Brendan
- 2.1 C. S. Lewis's Dialogic Imagination
- 2.2 The Dawn Treader and Fourfold Interpretation
- 3 Umberto Eco, 'Reality' and Prester John
- 3.1 Creating and Following the Footsteps of Saint Brendan
- 3.2 Umberto Eco's Construction of Space
- 3.3 Making the Incredulous Reader Believe in the Fantastic
- 4 Jonathan Swift, the Echtra and the Immram Tradition
- 4.1 Swift and Allegorical Reading
- 4.2 Swift's Real-World Framework
- 4.3 Gulliver's Islands and the Problems of Utopia
- 5 Star Trek as Immram , and 'Space, the Final Frontier...'
- 5.1 Planets as Islands
- 5.2 'Optimism, Captain!' Rowing-about with Cheer
- 5.3 These are the Immrama of the Starship Echtra
- 6 Stargate as an Echtra Narrative
- 6.1 Stargate 's Planetary Otherworlds
- 6.2 Stargate Ustopias
- 6.3 Postcolonial Echtrai
- 7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.