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)

1. Alternative letter-case form of robinsonade.

German

Etymology

Coined by Johann Gottfried Schnabel.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

Robinsonade f (genitive Robinsonade, plural Robinsonaden)

1. robinsonade

Declension

Declension of Robinsonade [feminine]

	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

Further reading

• “Robinsonade” in Duden online
• Robinsonade on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Robinsonade” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache