Verniana — Jules Verne Studies / Etudes Jules Verne — Volume 2 (2009–2010) — 149–178
Winter Lights: Disaster, Interpretation, and Jules Verne’s Polar Novels
“Winter Lights: Disaster, Interpretation, and Jules Verne’s Polar Novels” examines the relationship between historical events and their interpretation as fiction. The article does not seek to identify sources but rather to examine how Verne reflects well-known events through the prism of artistic creation. In The Adventures of Captain Hatteras and The Sphinx of the Icefields, the transformation of polar explorations and disasters is illustrated by, among other things, mythological images and the optical figures of the parhelion and the paraselene.
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