Meaning of robinsonade | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A genre of adventure fiction where a hero is stranded alone on a desert island and has to survive with their own wits.
2. Alternative letter-case form of robinsonade.
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“Much, perhaps most, Minecraft fiction follows the robinsonade template, emphasizing the day-to-day life of a character, including nonhuman characters, striving to survive and thrive in a recognizably Minecraftian world by utilizing its resources.”

“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.”

“The reader has so far followed Mr. Lecky, the novella’s single reflector, on a Robinsonade through a deserted department store.”

“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.”

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