Treasuring Robinson Crusoe: 300 Years of Adventure Symposium

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dc.contributor.authorQuiring, Arlysse
dc.contributor.authorCawood, Jason
dc.contributor.authorShires, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-07T18:35:08Z
dc.date.available2020-01-07T18:35:08Z
dc.date.issued2019-11
dc.descriptionThe symposium, emceed by University of Regina Librarian Michael Shires, also helped showcase the Robinson Crusoe collection of more than 200 editions held in the University of Regina Library's Special Collections. Some titles were displayed at the symposium. The event was free and open to the general public.en_US
dc.description.abstractTo help celebrate the 300th anniversary of the publication of the book Robinson Crusoe in 1719, the University of Regina Dr. John Archer Library, in partnership with Luther College, hosted a day-long symposium titled Treasuring Robinson Crusoe: 300 Years of Adventure Symposium. It took place on November 15, 2019 at Luther College, Regina, SK. Seven faculty members presented on various themes in the novel. This proceeding contains abstracts of all seven presentations: A “School of Defoe”?: Robinson Crusoe, Textual Integrity, and the Defoe Attribution Debate (Noel Chevalier, Dept. of English, Luther College), Castaway Religion: Robinson Crusoe Meets Hayy Ibn Yaqzan (Volker Greifenhagen, Dept. of Religious Studies, Luther College), Adaptation of Robinson Crusoe in Graphic Novels (Sylvain Rheault, La Cité, universitaire francophone), “This Death of a Life”: The Cannibal Conscience in Robinson Crusoe (Garry Sherbert, Dept. of English, Univ. of Regina), Reading Typology in Robinson Crusoe (Troni Grande, Dept. of English, Univ. of Regina), The Power-less Economics of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (Rick Kleer, Dept. of Economics Univ. of Regina), Robinson Crusoe’s “The Horror of the Spectacle”: Cannibalism and Emotional Response in Robinson Crusoe (Jan Purnis, Dept. of English, Luther College).en_US
dc.description.authorstatusStaffen_US
dc.description.peerreviewnoen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of Regina Dr. John Archer Library and Luther College - Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10294/9069
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Regina Libraryen_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGIONen_US
dc.titleTreasuring Robinson Crusoe: 300 Years of Adventure Symposiumen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US
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