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Author:   Natalia I. Petrovskaia
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004734500

ISBN 10:   9004734503
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   24 July 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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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

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Natalia I. Petrovskaia holds MA, MPhil and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge. She is Assistant Professor in Celtic at Utrecht University. Her recent publications include This is Not a Grail Romance. Understanding Historia Peredur vab Efrawc (University of Wales Press, 2023).

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