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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"travelogue"”.
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Embodiment and the senses in travelogue filmmaking
… the representation of embodied experience in the travelogue film genre. It reflects upon the embodied and synaesthesic nature of the cinematic experience by tracing a shift in travelogue filmmaking from the ocular realism characteristic of early travelogue films to the emergence and proliferation …
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Where the Landscape Inspires the Lines: Python-based Workbooks and Digital Tools for Reading <i>Yoshino ki</i>
… Yoshino), a seventeenth-century Japanese poetic travelogue authored by the poet and courtier Asukai Masaaki 飛鳥井雅章 (1611–1679), this project offers an interactive and immersive experience designed to meet the academic and research needs of a diverse group of scholars and students while advocating …
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German Literary Travelogues Around the Turn of the Century, 1890-1914
… 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 the genre until …
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Out of Johnson's Shadow: James Boswell as Travel Writer
… out to address how he should also be seen as a travelogue writer of note. The most important contention is that the rise of Boswell as a travel writer is key to understanding his prowess as an auto/biographical writer – with the topography of the man-monument central. The principal aim is to …
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Overlooking the Indigenous Midwest: Prince Maximilian of Wied in New Harmony
… explores his personal journal and his published travelogue to discover what Maximilian’s time in New Harmony reveals about his work. New Harmony exposed him to a wealth of information about Native Americans produced by educated white elites like himself. However, Maximilian missed opportunities …
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Open diary : biography/autobiography as historical context
Alberto Savinio in his travelogue and wartime diary "The departure of the Argonaut" (1918) graphically expressed reservations about his endeavour. "I write - that is, I lay out little black cadavres on the immaculate shroud of the page - but this doesn't begin to capture the magnificent innocence …
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Improvising Otherwise: Sound, Nature, and Coloniality in Early Modern England
… relations, and the coloniality of the travelogue. Through reading theological texts, travelogues, literature about the natural world, plays, poetry, and music theory treatises, I develop deeply contextual understandings of historical improvisation practices that have the potential to …
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Progress in the peripheries: improvement and national image in the fictions of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1780 - 1830
… approach to antiquarianism, tradition and the travelogue in her post-Union presentations of benevolent improvement in Ireland. Chapter three examines the way writers such as Christian Isobel Johnstone and Alexander Sutherland negotiate the popular image of the Romantic Highlands while exploring …
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The Western image of Turks from the Middle Ages to the 21st century: the myth of 'terrible Turk' and 'lustful Turk'
… Early Modern English drama, and Orientalist travelogue. To establish the continuity of the Turkish stereotypes in Western discourse, the thesis also presents a critical analysis of Western contemporary cinema, including both American and European films. The methodology of the thesis is based …
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Tartars at whose gates? Framing Russian identity through political adaptations of nineteenth-century French works by Astolphe de Custine and Jules Verne
… entitled Michel Strogoff (1876), each based on travelogue sources. Taken together, these two works framed the poles of an ongoing debate about Russian identity related to the long-term effects of the thirteenth-century Mongol invasions of Russia. Custine's memoir characterized Russia as a …
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Comics and/as Documentary: the implications of graphic truth-telling
… documentary as visibility and ‘voice’, and the travelogue as cultural narrative and production of knowledge. In other words, examples of comics that address actual, as opposed to imagined, persons and events of the historical world, are read through the lens of documentary. Close reading and …
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Transatlantic Acts: Nation, Self-Narration, and Celebrity in Victorian and Modernist Women's Autobiography
… feminine voices, drawing from genres of memoir, travelogue, fiction, and folklore alike in audience-aware ways that subversively challenge narratives of New World history in-the-making. Kemble's Journal of a Residence on a Plantation in 1838-1839 (1863), by contrast, adopts an intimate epistolary …
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Streifzüge durch eine "fremde" Welt : untersuchung ausgewählter schriftlicher Zeugnisse deutscher Reisender im südlichen Afrika im 19. Jahrhundert unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der kulturellen Fremderfahrung : eine literaturwissenschaftliche Untersuchung
… a significant role during the production of each travelogue. That is the reason why the textual product is also a self-portrayal of the author: his prejudices, his view of the world and his valuation of his home country. The collision of the European and with the so-called Other and the effects on …
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Burlesque Natural Philosophers: Eighteenth-Century Satires of Science and Social Innovation
… is of Margaret Cavendish, whose fantastical travelogue Blazing World and its companion treatise on Experimental Natural Philosophy (1668) articulate the perceived link between epistemic and political revolution in a manner that most eighteenth-century satires merely imply. Next I examine Dr. …
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The Romantic Reinvention of Imperial China, 1759–1857
… first between Marco Polo’s thirteenth-century travelogue and seventeenth-century Jesuit scholarship; and the second between the Kangxi Emperor’s 1721 ban on Christian missions and the end of the second Opium War in 1860. From the mid-eighteenth century up to the first Opium War—a period in …
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Points on my Curve to Find: A Journey around the Self to Find the World
… Naturally, there is always an element of 'travelogue' about both the practical work and the written documentation. But there is also an intentional discourse on and about sources of inspiration and the affect those sources have on form, content and technique in my work as a visual artist.
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Wonderboom
… fluctuates between the territory of memoir and travelogue as the journey progresses and her sense of consciousness starts to dissipate. Aspects of her musical craft, such as rhythm, tone and tempo are synthesised in the structure of the novel. Further to this, careful consideration was given to …
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Wonderboom
… fluctuates between the territory of memoir and travelogue as the journey progresses and her sense of consciousness starts to dissipate. Aspects of her musical craft, such as rhythm, tone and tempo are synthesised in the structure of the novel. Further to this, careful consideration was given to …
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"Letters written during a short residence in Spain and Portugal" and Robert Southey’s later writtings
… Letters engaged with the tradition of English travelogues, while borrowing traits from other genres such as the journal, translation, literary criticism, history, and the picturesque guidebook. On his way, Southey commented on every aspect of Spanish and Portuguese society, from local food and …
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Geschichte in Literatur-- Literatur als Geschichte: Fürst Pücklers literarische Stellungnahme zu den historisch-politischen und sozialen Zuständen seiner Zeit dargestellt an den Werken : Briefe eines Verstorbenen, Tutti Frutti und Südöstlicher Bildersaal
… literary history. His work, consisting mainly of travelogues, achieves a stylistic distinction comparable to that of Heinrich Heine, and depicts events, places and people with a political and social perception that shows him to have been far ahead of his time. Nickler has always been a …
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