William Henry Giles Kingston’s The Rival Crusoes (1878) and Emile Carrey’s Les Aventures de Robin Jouet (1907): A Comparative Study.
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2022
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Mouloud Mammeri University OF Tizi-Ouzou
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This research paper is a comparative study of William Henry Giles Kingston’s The Rival
Crusoes (1878) and Emile Carrey’s Les Aventures de Robin Jouet (1907). To carry out this
study, we have relied on Julia Kristeva’s Intertextuality and Mikhail Bakhtin’s Dialogism.
In our analysis, we have focused on the intertextual affinities between the two authors and
their novels. Focus has been laid on the similarities between the authors’ cultural and
historical contexts, we have also dealt with the intertextual similarities between the two
novels at the level of themes and characters. Our work is not limited to examining
similarities between the two novels. We also stared at the dialogic differences between
Kingston’s and Carrey’s works. To implement this analysis we have relied on Bakhtin’s
theory of Dialogism. This dissertation is divided into five major sections: an introduction, a
section for methods and materials, another for results and discussion, a conclusion and a
bibliography. After a substantial analysis of the two novels, we have come to some
conclusions. The first conclusion is that both Kingston’s and Carrey’s works share similar
historical and literary contexts and both authors belong to the same era, having been
influenced by 19th century events such as the Napoleonic Wars, the Industrial Revolution,
and the Grand Tour. The second conclusion indicates that characters like Richard Hargrave
and Robin Jouet, as well as themes like adventure, shipwrecking, and exploration are
intertextually linked in both stories. The last conclusion reached in this study is that
Kingston and Carrey’s literary works are intertextually different because of the characters
different social background, national origins, and especially traits of the protagonists
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60p. ; 30cm.+(cd)
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Litterature et Civilisation