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The Travel Literature of Henri Michaux
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Forging Ireland: German Travel Literature 1785-1850
… that underlie the manner in which German travel writers portrayed Ireland and the Irish people between 1785-1850. The focus is on demonstrating how individual authors are indebted to common conceptual frameworks and conventions across the time period, such as the aesthetics of the …
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Perspectives on Technology in Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedias, Travel Literature, and Utopian Fiction
The popularity of the technology theme during the last decades of the eighteenth century shows it was seen as a valuable tool for the reform of society. When technology is taken up as a literary topic in utopian science fiction and in dystopian criticisms of the technical later in the nineteenth …
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Travel literature of Moroccan pilgrims during the 11-12th/17-18th centuries : thematic and artistic study
… has been given to an interesting genre of literature that is worth appreciation and deserves examination and care, this is ' Travel Literature '. Therefore, I preferred to approach this under explored and vibrant field, which is concerned with al-Rihlät compiled by the pilgrims known as …
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Vijayanagara in foreign eyes: a study of travel literature and ethnology in the Renaissance (1420-1600)
… a case-study. An introductory chapter explains travel literature as a genre, and establishes its general importance for the early development of the human sciences in the European cultural tradition, in particular the empirical assumption that dominates the production of practically-oriented …
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Travelling Through Time: Tracing the Arrival of Modernity in German-Speaking Women’s Travel Literature on the Orient between 1840 and 1945
Travelling Through Time discusses accounts of the “Orient,” questions of identity formation through interactions with the “Other,” and the significance of the global spread of technological advances for these questions. Travel writing by both male and female authors has been a topic of interest for …
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Discovering the Balkans: British Travellers in Southeastern Europe, 1861--1911
… in other words ""discovered,"" by British travel writers. It concentrates on both traditional visits to the Balkans as well as non-traditional, imaginary ones---those found in fiction and poetry---and takes an innovative and integrated thematic approach that categorizes British visitors and …
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Silent Cities: Sensationalism and Removed Populations within Fourteenth Century Western Christian and Muslim Travel Accounts of Baghdad and Jerusalem
… populations within fourteenth century travel literature in the cities of Baghdad and Jerusalem, I analyze two Christian travelers, Marco Polo and John Mandeville, and one Muslim traveler, Ibn Battuta. As a basis of comparison, I discuss the twelfth century Muslim traveler, Ibn Jubayr. I …
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Dean Court: Backpackers in London
… work emphasises the relationships between travellers living in a semi-permanent hostel in London's inner-city district of Bayswater whilst the exegesis explores the position of Dean Court within contemporary travel literature.
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German Literary Travelogues Around the Turn of the Century, 1890-1914
The development of non-fictional travel literature (the literary travelogue) at the turn of the century (1890-1914) shows a cyclical pattern. After a short-lived revival of interest from 1890 to 1892, resulting from the emergence of Impressionism, the younger generation of writers did not practice …
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Estudio semántico de las interferencias inglés/español en "Gatherings from Spain", de Richard Fox
XIX century travel literature describes Spain as one of the most attractive destinations according to the Romantic philosophy. This attraction resulted in the proliferation of books on Spain's culture which created and consolidated the widely spread topics on Spaniards and their customs in the rest …
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Crossroads
… fear. My thesis also takes into account how travel and travel literature, with their ability to take one outside one's normal life or experience, can offer perspective and, in the case of actual travel, the opportunity to take risks and grow beyond the limits we all too often place on …
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Historicizing the landscape : recovering the aesthetics of the Alhambra
… tropes celebrating the landscape in 19th century travel literature. Travel was a contemplative practice of decomposing and recomposing the landscape through literature and visual representation. Travelers attempted to recapture and reconstruct a coherent image of the palace complex through the …
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Corporate Christians and Terrible Turks: Economics, Aesthetics, and the Representation of Empire in the Early British Travel Narrative, 1630 - 1780
… examines the evolution of the early English travel narrative as it relates to the development and application of mercantilist economic practices, theories of aesthetic representation, and discourses of gender and narrative authority. I attempt to redress an imbalance in critical work on …
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Mourning at Mount Vernon: Memory, Commemoration, and Thanatourism in the Creation of Nineteenth-Century American Identity
… site of George Washington’s Tomb, I contend that travel to this location falls within the definitions of thanatourism developed by Tourism Studies to explore the motives of tourists who choose to visit places related to death and disasters. For nineteenth-century American tourists, steeped in the …
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"STILL DREAMING OF PARADISE": RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN ' S OKLAHOMA!, SOUTH PACIFIC , AND POSTWAR AMERICA
… cowboys, popular images of the Pacific Islands, travel literature and advertisements, anthropological and sociological tracts on race and ethnicity, the theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, and foreign policy publications are used to demonstrate Oklahoma!'s and South Pacific's connections to …
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'Scotland the Real':the representation of traditional music in Scottish tourism
… through systems of representation such as travel literature, recordings and traditional music events (including folk festivals, tourist shows and sessions). It argues that an explicit concern with the “real” has been a recurrent, although contested, discursive trope in such representations. …
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Archipelagic thinking in the Indian Ocean world : the story of 'Sindbad the Sailor' and Alan Villiers's Sons of Sindbad
This project focuses on the travel literature produced through the Indian Ocean world of the dhow trade. It examines the medieval story of "Sindbad the Sailor and Sindbad the Porter" alongside the 20th century travel narrative Sons of Sindbad (1940) written by mariner and author Alan Villiers. Both …
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The Land of the Lion and the Sun: British Travel-‐writing on Persia, 1890-‐1940
… explores the diversity and evolution of British travel-writing on Persia from 1890, and argues that as a liminal space with the British geo-political world view, Persia offered an especially fertile ground for travel-writers to record their experiences in a wide variety of forms and styles. …
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