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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"travel writing"”.
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Spain and Kazantzakis’ travel writing
… and comparative reading of Nikos Kazantzakis' writings on Spain as a whole, namely both the ones included in the book Ταξιδεύοντας-Ισπανία and those published in the newspapers Eleftheros Typos and I Kathimerini. The focus will not be on their literary value, but on the extent to which these …
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South African travel writing and bias
This thesis spotlights the travel and leisure magazine industry within South Africa. It contends that the travel writing genre is susceptible to a number of biases, both past and present, which ultimately affect the way its overall content is produced and presented to the public. This work was …
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Travel Writing, Self and Other: Finding Reciprocal Space
… self and other as these are constructed in the travel writing of five authors: the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark; the Victorian polymath William Morris’ Icelandic Journals; travel writer and historian Robert Byron’s …
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Fiction and travel writing in Ireland, 1750-1840
… the complex relationship between fiction and travel writing from the middle of the eighteenth century to the eve of the Great Famine. My examination of the intertextuality between novels and travel books including geographical publications and guidebooks reveals how fiction writers drew on …
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Homeward bound : late twentieth century domestic travel writing
… examines the state-of the-art of the domestic travel writing genre. In the introduction the challenges facing domestic travel writers are presented. The conclusion mentions recent criticisms of domestic travel writing and refutes these, maintaining that the genre can still offer ideas of worth …
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Dream of an elsewhere: contemporary African American travel writing
African American literature is infused with travel. Experiences of physical journeying have been pivotal to the story of men and women of African descent in the United States for hundreds of years, since the original traumatic forced displacement of the Middle Passage that generated a diasporic …
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Surfing Haïti, and a new wave of travel writing
This thesis aims to develop an intermodal surf travel writing through the exploration of, and engagement with, Haïti’s coastline. Actor-network-theory (ANT) provides the methodological and theoretical framework to explore and explain how the key topics - surf, travel (Haïti) and writing - are …
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Mapping Generic Territory: The Pedagogy and Practice of Travel Writing
This thesis engages with travel writing at two levels: pedagogically and practically. It discusses at length, the unique configuration of travel writing’s literary currencies and conventions. Primary linguistic data were collected from travel texts collated within a portfolio of the researcher’s …
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Romantic subjectivity: women’s identity in their nineteenth-century travel writing about Scotland
… women’s identity in their<br/>nineteenth-century travel writing about Scotland, is concerned with the<br/>location of women and their creation and construction of relational identity in<br/>their personal narratives of the nineteenth century.<br/>The texts taken for study are travel journals, …
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Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Travel Writing in Algeria: Representation, Ambivalence, and Empire
This thesis draws on the links between travel writing, colonialism, and Orientalism to provide a comparative study of the representation of Algerians and responses to the French Empire in Algeria in the non-fictional and fictional works of traveller-writers, Eugène Fromentin, Théophile Gautier, …
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TIME, IDENTITY AND NATION IN GERMAN TRAVEL WRITING ON AFRICA 1848-1914
… Between 1848 and 1914 a wave of German explorers travelled to Africa, enticed by the promise of geographical, botanical and anthropological discovery. Each Afrikareisender composed a narrative account of his German-African encounters and so produced a characteristic mode of travel writing. These …
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Transnational Translation: Foreign Language in the Travel Writing of Cooper, Melville, and Twain
… foreign language in nineteenth-century American travel writing, analyzing how authors conceptualize the act of translation as they address the multilingualism encountered abroad. The three major figures in this study--James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain--all use moments of …
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The Burdens of History: Problems Invoked by Occidental Travel Writing on the Balkans
… colonialism, to give an overview of Occidental travel writing on the Balkans with a particular focus on the formation and dissolution of Yugoslavia, and to suggest examples of travel texts that strive to read colonized worlds without losing sight of their own Occidental positioning or pretending …
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Relocation narratives 'Made in Italy': self and place in late-twentieth century travel writing
At the intersection of life writing and travel writing, relocation narratives form a distinct subgenre of contemporary travel memoirs concerned with the inter-subjective and intra-subjective experiences of travellers who become settlers in foreign locales. Lured by the dream of the ‘good life’ …
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Mobile Holmes: Sherlockiana, travel writing and the co-production of the Sherlock Holmes stories
… At its centre is an analysis of geographical and travel writings these readers produced about Holmes’s life and world, in the later years of the twentieth century. I argue that Sherlockian writings indicate a tendency to practise what I term ‘expansionary literary geography’; that is, a species of …
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VAGABONDS AND THE VIRTUAL: IDENTITY, ECONOMICS AND ETHICS IN THE GENRE OF DIGITAL TRAVEL WRITING
While the genre of travel writing has been popular with authors and audiences over centuries, developments in new media, social media and public use genres have caused an adaptation of the genre in the digital space. This genre, as it exists, claims two antecedents: first, the traditional and …
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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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NARRATED TRAVEL AND RHETORICAL TROPES: PRODUCING "THE TURK" IN THE TRAVEL WRITING OF CYPRUS, 1955-2005
Travelers' experiences in Cyprus and the texts they produce in light of these encounters function rhetorically, informing cultural relations among people of different societies. When the efforts of these travel writers are taken to be rhetorical, critics position themselves to identify how ethics, …
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Perspectives on Africa in travel writing: representations of Ethiopia, Kenya, Republic of Congo and South Africa, 1930–2000
… contexts for the interrogation of modern travel narratives about African countries. The nineteenth century saw significant advances in travel in Africa’s interior. For the first time much of Africa was revealed to a Western audience through the reports of explorers and other travellers. My …
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