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Jones, David Francis. "Swift's use of the literature of travel in the composition of "Gulliver's travels"." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1987. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4211/.
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The primary aim of this thesis is to identify and assess the correspondences which occur between Gulliver's Travels and non fiction travel writing to which Swift is known to have had access before and during the period of composition. Books of travels listed by Harold Williams in Dean Swift's Library (Cambridge, 1932) have been consulted. In particular, the thesis examines the possible contribution of travel documents published by Hakluyt and Purchas. The method of research employed has been to concentrate upon themes such as the veracity of travel writers, stylistic features, primitive savages, strange islands, magic,attitudes to voyaging, bows and arrows, pygmies and giants, motives for travel, law and customs. The first chapter summarizes known and possible influences, considering the broad combination of fabulous and imaginary prose travel with Swift's mock realism. The second chapter develops the analysis of literary parody and considers the uneasy satirical relationship between travel lies and Gulliver's ironic veracity, with particular reference to magic and astrology. Chapters 3-7 comprise five regional studies of several themes which have been considered of special relevance to Gulliver's Travels, following this survey of travel writing. The conclusions reached in the course of the thesis relate to the allusive power and ironic depth of Gulliver's Travels. Whereas R.W. Frantz, W.A. Eddy, Arthur Sherbo and others have noticed incidental parallels in real travel literature, no comprehensive study exists of the subject as a whole. The thesis treats Hakluyt and Purchas in detail in working towards establishing the conventions of travel writing which are partly imitated and partly mocked by Swift. The extent to which it is intended that the reader should be conscious of the real travel background is also explored. Although source hunting can be an unprofitable activity, the large number of correspondences between Gulliver's Travels and the literature of real travel upon which the work is partly based suggest Swift was more conversant with voyages and travels than may have been presumed. These travel features appear to have been carefully intermingled with recognizable Homeric, Rabelaisian and Lucianic elements.
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Miracle, Bragantini Caterina. "Un composto di scrittura e di visione viva. La littérature de voyage d'Emilio Cecchi entre journalisme, photographie et politique." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Lyon, École normale supérieure, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024ENSL0012.
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Cette thèse porte sur l’oeuvre de voyage du critique, journaliste et essayiste Emilio Cecchi. Entre 1930 et 1939 il visite de nombreux pays, en relatant ses expériences sur le quotidien « Corriere della Sera ». Ensuite, il rassemble ses reportages dans quatre livres : « Messico », « Et in Arcadia ego », «America amara », « Appunti per un periplo dell’Africa ». Cette recherche se focalise notamment sur un aspect des voyages de Cecchi qui n’avait jamais été étudié systématiquement, c’est-à-dire l’usage de l’appareil photographique, dont le résultat est conservé, inédit, dans le Fonds d’auteur, près de l’Archivio Contemporaneo « A. Bonsanti » au Gabinetto Vieusseux de Florence. Il s’agit de presque huit cents photographies prises lors de ses voyages aux États-Unis, au Mexique, en Grèce, en Afrique, qui composent, selon ce qu’on démontre dans la thèse, l’« avant-texte », ou bien les « cahiers visuels » des reportages. Ce travail explore donc l’oeuvre hodéporique de Cecchi dans une perspective intertextuelle et intermédiale, visant à lire les quatre livres comme un organisme complexe, au centre duquel est le regard vers l’ailleurs. Le deuxième objectif de la thèse est celui de problématiser la destination médiale des articles. Le « Corriere della Sera », pendant les années Trente, est un journal fasciste ; les représentations des pays étrangers visités par Cecchi sont affectées par les relations que l’Italie entretient avec eux, et par les stéréotypes raciaux diffusés par le régime. Ainsi, on cherche ici à repérer la marge entre la pensée personnelle du reporter et l’adoption de l’imaginaire et de la rhétorique fascisteThis thesis focuses on the travel work of the critic, journalist, and essayist Emilio Cecchi. Between 1930 and 1939 he visited several countries, writing about his experiences for the daily "Corriere della Sera". He then compiled his reports in four books: "Messico", "Et in Arcadia ego", "America amara" and "Appunti per un periplo dell'Africa". This research particularly focuses on an aspect of Cecchi's travels that had never been systematically studied before, namely the use of the photographic camera. In the author’s archive, inside the Archivio Contemporaneo "A. Bonsanti" at the Gabinetto Vieusseux in Florence are conserved almost eight hundred photographs taken during his travels in the United States, Mexico, Greece and Africa, which, according to the thesis, make up the "fore-text" or "visual notebooks" of the reports. This work therefore explores Cecchi's hodeporic work from an intertextual and intermedial perspective, aiming to read the four books as a complex organism, at the center of which is the gaze towards the elsewhere. The second aim of the thesis is to problematize the medial destination of the articles. During the Thirties, the “Corriere della Sera” was a Fascist newspaper; the representations of the foreign countries Cecchi visited were affected by Italy's relations with them, and by the racial stereotypes disseminated by the regime. The aim here is to identify the margin between the reporter's personal thoughts and his adoption of Fascist rhetoric and imagery
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Grasso, Joshua. "STRANGE ADVENTURES, PROFITABLE OBSERVATIONS: TRAVEL WRITING AND THE CITIZEN-TRAVELER, 1690-1760." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1150605738.
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George, Roger Allen. "The transcendental traveler /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9418.
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Godin, Marc Antoine. "Dérapages, suivi de Vers une définition du roman de la route." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0027/MQ50516.pdf.
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Ohnesorg, Stefanie. "Sie zogen in die Fremde und fanden sich selbst : Neubewertung der Orient-Reiseberichte von Frauen aus dem 19. Jahrhundert vor dem Hintergrund der Geschichte des Reisens und der Reiseliteratur." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28872.
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The present study has two major goals: first it reconstructs the history of travel-literature from the Middle Ages to the 19th century with a special focus on the role of women, second it attempts to analyse and evaluate travel-accounts by women who travelled to the Orient in the 19th century (Engel-Egli, Forneris, Pfeiffer, Hahn-Hahn and Muhlbach).The reconstruction of the history of travel and travel-literature up to the 18th century shows that it was possible for women to travel with relative freedom. With the polarization of gender-roles in the last third of the 18th century, however, women were declared 'unfit for travel' and confined to their homes. Due to this development, travel-accounts by women travelling to the Orient, that were written in the middle of the 19th century, have to fulfil a special function. Besides representing an attempt to reestablish the tradition of female travellers that had been suppressed from the middle of the 18th century on, travelling to the Orient meant that the female authors in question had access to areas and spaces that were both off limits to their male counterparts (i.e. the harem) and charged with sexually connoted images. Forneris,' Pfeiffer's and Hahn-Hahn's statements can be interpreted as a conscious attempt to criticize European man through the deconstruction of the images of the Oriental femme fatale in two ways: the first criticism is that they present themselves as authorities with regard to the domain of the Oriental woman. The second occurs through consciously creating grotesque anti-images, whereby women turn the "oriental dream" of their male contemporaries into a nightmare. This act of turning the images into their opposite happens without taking into account the culturally different woman. She has been reduced to the status of an object by women travelling to the Orient exactly in the same manner as male colleagues reduced them.
In addition, this analysis gives special consideration to much discussed 19th century elements of racial theories which found their way into the travel accounts.
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Kennedy, Eimear. "Intercultural encounter in Irish-language travel literature." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2017. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.727414.
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This thesis explores contemporary Irish-language travel literature, a genre that has been largely ignored in Irish literary criticism to date. Unlike travel literature in major world languages, such as English and French, Irish-language travel literature does not have a long-established link with colonialism. It is only in more recent years, as social and economic conditions in Ireland improved and emigration began to give way to travel for leisure purposes, that the field has begun to develop. Given the significant differences between the history of the genre in Irish and other major world languages, this study interrogates how/whether the cultural background of Irish-language travel writers differs to that of other international writers and examines how this impacts upon their interactions with other peoples and other cultures. In order to explore these questions, this thesis draws on postcolonial theory and travel, tourism and mobility studies to investigate intercultural encounter. It pays particular attention to the work of four contemporary writers: Manch^n Magan, Gabriel Rosenstock, Cathal 0 Searcaigh and Dutch-born Alex Hijmans. These writers are minority-language speakers who come from, or who have lived in, Ireland, a country on the periphery of Western Europe that was the victim of colonization, yet they are also relatively wealthy Western Europeans. Thus this study examines how their distinct cultural background alongside their economic privilege affects their encounters with travellees and investigates the associated issues of representation, power and ethics. Ultimately, this thesis provides a new critical insight into Irish-language travel literature which, in turn, has implications for how we study travel writing in languages associated with former imperial powers. The 'in-between' positioning of Irish-language travel writers transcends the conventional dichotomised approach to encounter, provides new perspectives into intercultural contact and proposes a new, dynamic and counterdiscursive 'third space’ that accommodates fluid cultural identities.
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Manous, Michael Lee. "Travel stunts and literary performances the wager journey in England, 1579-1653 /." Diss., UC access only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1974746341&sid=1&Fmt=7&clientId=48051&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009.Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 556-579). Issued in print and online. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations.
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Offord, Mark. "Wordsworth, enlightenment anthropology, and the literature of travel." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611957.
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Parra, Lazcano Lourdes. "Transcultural performativities : travel literature by Mexican women writers." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21346/.
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This thesis examines travel literature by Mexican women in relation to transcultural performativities, which refers to a feminist critique of how writers capture their normative performativity and their agency as they interact with different cultural contexts. My analysis considers texts from the end of the nineteenth century, taking into consideration the first Mexican women who published travel literature, through to contemporary writers from the early twenty-first century. The major focus of this thesis will be to show how Mexican women writers repeat political and poetic performativities in their literature, based on their trips to foreign places. This thesis is composed of four parts: a theoretical analysis of transcultural performativities and three close, comparative readings of travel writing and the context of their production. In the first chapter, I propose a conceptual model named transcultural performativities to analyse travel literature. This model takes into consideration the contributions of Judith Butler, Fernando Ortiz, Walter Mignolo, Julio Ortega, Eyda Merediz, Nina Gerassi-Navarro, Gloria Anzaldúa, Homi Bhabha and Édouard Glissant. This analytical model has a tripartite structure: occidental Atlanticism, post-occidental border thinking, and the Philosophy of Relation in worldliness (globalisation). The second chapter is a comparative analysis of the works of Laura Méndez de Cuenca and Elena Garro to exemplify the Atlanticist relations among Europe, the United States, Latin America and, in particular Mexico. The third chapter examines the works of Rosario Castellanos and María Luisa Puga to grasp the cultural negotiations of the intermediate social experience between Mexico and other foreign countries. The final chapter explores the works of Esther Seligson and Myriam Moscona to analyse the positionality of Mexican Jews in relation to World Literatures. Overall, this thesis suggests that we can understand the complexities of the fluidity and non-fixity of subjectivity in Mexican women’s travel writing by dwelling on the constantly changing nature of sex/gender, social classes, racialization, nationalism, and religiosity.
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Brunnemer, Kristin Carol. "Rewriting the road (auto)mobility and the road narratives of American writers of color /." Diss., UC access only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=135&did=1874459661&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=7&retrieveGroup=0&VType=PQD&VInst=PROD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1270492729&clientId=48051.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009.Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 224-238). Issued in print and online. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations.
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Bedggood, Daniel F. ""Tainted" moves: Subjects of contemporary travel literatures." Thesis, University of Canterbury. English, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4861.
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The research for my thesis falls within the relatively fresh field of travel writing literary criticism, an area of increasing interest as growing global trends of tourism, migration, exile and "nomadic" movements of people displace the models of habitation and identity central to many traditions of literature. Principally, I seek to address three major questions through this study: to search for what the specific subjects of travel are; to examine how they are constructed; and to discuss their significance in the contemporary context most relevant to each. Recently, the field of travel writing has become an increasingly important focal point
for a range of competing and interconnected disciplines. Why have the directions of those
questioning converged on what many still consider to be a rather second-rate, middle-brow
class within literature? One answer is that travel writings are now considered a rich source
for analysing key aspects of the representation of the world. A critical consideration of the
various "modes" of travel writing reveals tIns discursive site as a vibrant arena for ideological
interpolation, where neo-imperial interests and tastes are juxtaposed, complicated and
challenged in divergent fields of "postcoloniality".
This thesis looks at both theory and practice, responding to a selection of postmodern
and cultural critical sources and primary literary texts, chiefly of the writings of Paul
Theroux, Oliver Sacks and Jonathan Raban, Bruce Chatwin, Edward Said, Salman Rushdie,
and Michael Ondaatje. My aim is to construct a framework of critical practice, using these
texts, that attempts to explain the function and place of different strands of contemporary
travel writing within literary, geographical, historical, and cultural contexts. I pay particular
attention to the array of narrative styles and impulses available (noting the receptive biases of
realistic, "ethnographic" writing and imaginative fictional journeys and intentional
differences that are propelled by the various types of displacement) in order to deconstruct the
processes of ideology at work in the production and reception of texts from different (and
sometimes shifting) political locations.
I seek to unravel some of the differentiated functions and places of contemporary
travel writing within historically and culturally "tainted" contexts, in the Pacific, Australia,
the Middle East and on an international scale, in terms of key narrative and representational
traits, in order to postulate the political and cultural capital garnered from this popular form of
writing. Hence, I have linked particular "modes" of displacement with key texts in order to
re-examine the effective meaning of terminologies of displacement, and to effectively analyze
traits of cultural imperialism embedded in new narrative practices of the tourist, nomad, exile
and migrant. In addition, my focus addresses specific contemporary contexts that converge
with the representation of both displacement and placement, including interventions into
postcolonial and globalisation studies, the history of subjectivity, and literary studies to
develop key thematic connections with concerns such as subjectivity, the relationship of
globalisation to "home" and the correlating subjects of exile, diaspora, migration, dislocation
and alienation.
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Ewart, Rebecca Elizabeth. "Translation, interpretation and otherness : Polynesia in French travel literature." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680152.
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This thesis seeks to explore French travel literature on Polynesia as a form of translation. It analyses how travel writers interpret and textualize their experiences of the foreign culture in order to create a version of Polyneslan otherness. Following on from Lawrence Venuti's theory of foreignization and domestication, it is assumed that all translations necessarily manipulate the source culture into forms that are determined by the receiving culture, and that fidelity to an original is, therefore, impossible. Ethical potential is considered to lie in a translation that goes against the norms of translation present In the receiving culture in respect of Polynesia. The thesis identifies the emergence of over-determined narratives relating to Polynesia in late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth-century French travel literature. It shows how this body of work engaged with pre-existing narratives surrounding New-World cultures and dreams of a utopian south em continent, and considers the emergence of a dominant version of Polynesia closely linked to notions of an earthly paradise. In relation to the tradition of translation established in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the thesis studies the translation strategies employed by Pierre Loti in 'Le Mariage de Loti' (1880) and Victor Segalen in 'Les Immemoriaux' (1907). It demonstrates their seminal status as works that set trends for translating Polynesia, in terms of both reinforcing translation norms and subverting them. Finally, the thesis investigates the afterlives of Loti and Segalen's texts, as they appear in operatic adaptations ('Lakme' (1883) and 'L'ile du reve' (189B)), translations Into English, twentieth-century travel literature (Loti), and in indigenous Polynesian writing (Segalen).
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Jones, Richard James. "Tobias Smollett : travels through France, Italy and Scotland." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312679.
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Farabee, Darlene. "Print travels movement and metaphor in the early modern era /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 296 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1456289051&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Basu, Debjani Feroza. "After the end of travel : twentieth-century French travel literatures and theories." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416102.
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This thesis investigates ways in which French travel writers since the twentieth centUfhave attempted to negotiate new subject matter for travel writing, without compromising the specificity of their role as both travellers and writers. The context for this study is the sense, popularized in the twentieth century, that travel, as a possibility. is faced with exhaustion. Concerns that there is nowhere left to go, that places and cultures have become homogeneous, and that travel is now a banal activity, are the basis of fears of the 'end of travel'. In response, a number of French travel writers have manifestly attempted to refresh the genre through practical innovation. However, there has been little recognition of this aspect of French travel writing by scholars ofliterature. In order to elucidate thematic innovations in twentieth-century French travel writing, this thesis explores interdisciplinary theories of travel, and examines how French travel writers construct travel in relation to overlapping practices and theories. Two major sociocultural developments - the rise of mass tomism and the increasing sophistication and rationalization of transport facilities - are fore grounded as factors blamed for the banalization of travel. These indicate nonnative conditions for traveL and are presented here as a reference point in the analysis of innovative travel practices. The final section of the thesis challenges some of the assumptions implicit in perceptions of the 'end of travel'. The notion that there is nowhere left to go is problematized by the subjective narratives of physically disabled persons, who may experience an end of literal travel that is an unexamined counterpart to a rhetorical fin des voyages. Also, science fiction and infonnation technology are sites for the negotiation of new fonns of travel that potentially undennine the notion that travel is an exhausted possibility. By focusing on the continuing importance of travel practices in a broad corpus of French travelogues, this thesis demonstrates the need for an interdisciplinary methodology that can account for thematic aspects of the geme, and it introduces new theoretical resources for this purpose. More specifically, it brings to attention, elucidates, and problematizes the privileged status of the body in contemporary French approaches to travel writing.
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Menardi, Ana Paula Seco. "A educação na literatura de viagem e na literatura jesuitica - seculos XVI e XVII." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/251657.
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Resumo: O presente trabalho trata sobre a educação na Literatura de Viagem e na Literatura Jesuítica, buscando trazer à tona o seu caráter ideológico. Entendemos por Literatura de Viagem o conjunto de obras, sejam elas escritas por colonizadores, aventureiros, comerciantes, naturalistas ou exploradores, que trazem informações e imagens que deram à Europa uma visão do Novo Mundo através de uma experiência própria proporcionada pela viagem. E por Literatura Jesuítica, os muitos escritos deixados pelos membros da Companhia de Jesus em diferentes formatos: cartas, sermões, narrativas, relatórios, tratados, informativos. Os relatos produzidos pelos viajantes e jesuítas estrangeiros que estiveram no Brasil ao longo dos séculos XVI e XVII são testemunhos fundamentais das viagens e dos contatos estabelecidos com os habitantes do Novo Mundo, sendo uma parte integrante do próprio quadro do processo de conquistas e colonização. Os europeus foram os primeiros a construírem um conhecimento referente à educação no Brasil, entendida tanto no sentido amplo: enquanto conhecimento e observação dos costumes e da vida social, civilidade, polidez, cortesia, cultura socialização e sociabilidade, como também no sentido mais restrito: como meio de adquirir formação e desenvolvimento físico, intelectual, religioso e moral, na sua forma institucionalizada, no sentido mesmo de instrução, de ensino, escolarização. A forma como viajantes e jesuítas estrangeiros, mais especificadamente europeus, observaram, interpretaram, registraram e construíram um conhecimento acerca da educação estão ligadas, direta e indiretamente, a uma visão de mundo socialmente condicionada, representando, portanto, a visão de mundo do branco ocidental civilizado e cristão. Os relatos dos viajantes e jesuítas estrangeiros são expressões ideológicas que refletem as concepções de colonização, sociedade e educação de seu tempo, servindo tanto aos propósitos da Coroa portuguesa como também da Igreja reformada. A questão que se colocou para este trabalho foi justamente como alguns viajantes e jesuítas que estiveram no Brasil nos séculos XVI e XVII e observaram a sociedade colonial brasileira construíram imagens, forjaram interpretaram a sociedade brasileira, articularam informações, fatos e idéias, elaboraram teorias, de forma a expressar uma concepção ideológica de sociedade, religião e educação. Ou seja, como construíram e reproduziram um conhecimento a respeito da educação no Brasil, através de suas obras, buscando desvendar o caráter ideológico desses escritos resultantes das viagens.
Abstract: The present work regards the Education in Travel Writing and Jesuit Literature, seeking to bring out its ideological nature. Travel Writing is all works written by colonizers, adventurers, traders, naturalists and explorers who have information and images that gave Europe a vision of the New World through an experience provided by the trip. And Jesuit literature, the many writings left by members of the Society of Jesus in different formats: letters, sermons, narratives, reports, treaties, information. The reports produced by the Jesuits and foreign travelers who visited Brazil during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are evidence of the fundamental travel and contacts established with the inhabitants of the New World, and is part of the very framework of the conquest and colonization. The Europeans were the first to build a knowledge related to education in Brazil, as understood in the broad sense: as knowledge and observation of manners and social life, civility, politeness, courtesy, culture, socialization and sociability, but also in the narrower sense: as a means to gain training and physical, intellectual, religious and moral, in its institutionalized form, in the same sense learning and acquisition of knowledge. The way that travelers and foreign Jesuits, more specifically the Europeans ones, observed, interpreted, recorded and built a knowledge of education are linked, directly and indirectly, to a worldview socially conditioned, and thus become the world view of Western White civilized and Christian. The accounts of foreign travelers and Jesuits are ideological expressions that reflect the views of colonization, society and education of his time, serving both the purposes of the Portuguese crown, but also of the Reformed Church. The question asked for this work was just as some travelers and missionaries who came to Brazil in the sixteenth and seventeenth century and found the Brazilian colonial society constructed images, forged interpreted the Brazilian society, articulated information, facts and ideas, developed theories of order to express an ideological conception of society, religion and education. That is, as constructed and reproduced knowledge about education in Brazil, through his works, trying to uncover the ideology of these writings of journeys.
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Musgrove, Brian Michael. "D.H.Lawrence's travel books." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293786.
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Haynes, Alexis. "Mark Twain, travel, and transnationalism : relocating American literature, 1866-1910." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439758.
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Wood, Melanie. "Qualities of movement : travel and environment in modern epic literature." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2003. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11401/.
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Epic literature has often been interpreted as a static genre, conforming to conventional structural and thematic characteristics. This study argues that epic is a genre of movement and transition, in terms of its literary style, and its humanist representation of journeys and geography. Taking a thematic approach, this study draws upon images of movement, modes of transport and perceptions of the environment to argue that modern epic is concerned with describing both an animate universe and humankind's position within it. Chronological discussions of individual narratives focus upon John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667), William Wordsworth's The Prelude (1805), Lord Byron's Don Juan (1819-24), James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), Derek Walcott's Umeros (1990), and Aiden Andrew Dun's Vale Royal (1995). This carries the study across the modern period, from the Seventeenth Century to the present day. Literary and philosophical contexts are engaged with, and culturally-specific interpretations of a perceived human condition are drawn out. The study concludes that epic must be perceived as a genre which evolves alongside cultural developments. The epic journey is one of the prime vehicles for expressing change, and for guiding the hero and reader towards new revelations or ways of understanding material and social environments.
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Stephenson, Lois Bea. "Ethos in "Gulliver's Travels"." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/863.
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Dixon, John Spencer. "Representations of the East in English and French travel writing 1798-1882 : with particular reference to Egypt." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1991. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/35766/.
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The aim of the thesis has been to offer a comparative analysis of discourses within English and French travel writing in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in order to develop a more nuanced understanding of how the East was represented in this type of literature than that offered by Edward Said in his book Orientalism. The thesis considers the degree to which the latent racism and imperialism of western attitudes was universally expressed in this type of writing. While dates have been set for this study, the main reason for this has been to limit the vast body of archive material potentially relevant to its theoretical base. On occasion it has been necessary to step outside these dates in order to examine earlier eighteenth-century work or point out the relevance of this type of study to more recent western approaches to the East. The thesis shows a decline in the nineteenth century in popular belief in a fiction of the Orient as an imagined site of luxury and sensual indulgence, as travel writing countered this image with reports of real countries and peoples. The place of the aesthetic in French writing is considered here, as it offers a challenge to the more political perspective offered by Said. The thesis concludes by suggesting that there were other discourses in travel literature in this period which lie outside specifically racist and imperialist constructs, and therefore deepens and broadens the investigations undertaken by Said with reference to British and French travel writing of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Lombard, Johanna Christina. "A pangalactic gargle blaster of Lilliputian proportions: A comparative analysis of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62647.
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Douglas Adams and Jonathan Swift are satirists who lived and worked 250 years apart. Swift's eighteenth-century text, Gulliver's Travels, tells the story of an Englishman's adventures during numerous sea voyages that bring him into contact with fantastical peoples and places. Adams's twentieth-century text, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, relates a hapless Englishman's trials and tribulations during an intergalactic voyage which takes him and his companions to bizarre destinations. This study considers key similarities and differences between the texts. Resonances between Gulliver's celestial navigation in the eighteenth century and Arthur Dent's navigation among those very heavenly bodies in the twentieth century are explored. The novels are examined for evidence of satire, the travel genre, proto science fiction and mock science fiction and for generic similarities between the works. Through a process of elimination, Gulliver's and Arthur Dent's respective journeys are abstracted, summarised and represented graphically. Communication theory and linguistic trends during the Enlightenment and the twentieth century, as well as the science and technology of each era are also briefly reviewed. This study finds that, through the exploitation of the journey as literary device which allows Gulliver and Arthur Dent to view England and Earth from different places and from different times, both Swift and Adams are able to comment on and satirise humankind. The illustrations of the journeys highlight the differences between the two novels in terms of structure and adherence to markers of time and place. Lemuel Gulliver's journeys are shown to be radial voyages with England as the core location of departures and arrivals, whereas Arthur's appear to be random and follow neither the expected and known rules of travel, nor the laws of time and space. The study furthermore considers the nature of the locations visited and finds resemblances and differences between the authors' and readers' known worlds, and the fictitious worlds described. This naturally leads to a consideration of the degree of alienation experienced by the protagonists and, indeed, humanity. Finally, the texts are examined for communication problems faced by the protagonists. The conclusion of this study suggests that in Gulliver's Travels and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy both Adams and Swift show their awareness that language is not neutral, and that it possesses the power to entertain, inform, deceive and destroy. Both texts function metonymically to highlight the perilous complexity of the human condition and show that humanity's journey through space/time in the twentieth century remains as treacherous as one by sea during the Enlightenment.Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Krones, Joachim Michael. "Hubert Fichte e seu xango: confluências etnográficas e literárias." Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letra e Lingüística da UFBA, 2005. http://www.repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/11633.
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Esta dissertação apresenta o escritor alemão Hubert Fichte (1935-1986), cuja obra ocupa um lugar excepcional dentro da literatura alemã pós-guerra por seu caráter intercultural, transnacional e transcontinental. A abordagem engloba o indivíduo Fichte e sua produção literária sob três enfoques. O primeiro é o enquadramento de seus textos no gênero literatura de viagem. Fichte se automodelou através das destinações, que representou literariamente. Para situá-lo nesse gênero literário difuso, as convenções de representação textual da alteridade, operadas por viajantes ocidentais metropolitanos em direção às periferias, serão discutidas. O segundo enfoque tem por objetivo contextualizar política e culturalmente as características específicas da obra de Fichte na conjuntura histórica chamada de ?os anos 60?, no mundo e na Alemanha. O terceiro enfoque analisa a sua poetologia formulada programaticamente e aborda a parte da obra de Fichte considerada, nesta investigação, como texto etnográfico, colocando-a em diálogo com a crítica à etnografia tradicional e com os postulados de uma nova etnografia, articulados no âmbito do debate writing culture. Alguns itens e deduções essenciais deste debate foram antecipados por Fichte, em sua busca por uma escrita etnográfica experimental que satisfizesse os parâmetros de sua poetologia. Por último, a primeira parte de seu livro Xango. Die afroamerikanischen Religionen. Bahia Haiti Trinidad será analisada. Nesta obra não ficcional, Fichte tematiza a sua estada e as suas pesquisas sobre o candomblé em Salvador entre 1970 e 1971. Examinar-se-á esta obra sob o ângulo de como se concretizam textualmente esses procedimentos experimentais em relação ao modo tropológico de representação, à linguagem poética, ao modo de autoridade dialógica e à crítica política e cultural.
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Edwards, Justin D. "Exotic journeys, exploring the erotics of American travel literature, 1840-1930." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0024/NQ47609.pdf.
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Carrasquillo, Marci L. ""The perfect freedom" : travel and mobility in contemporary ethnic American literature /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1232423251&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 260-267). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Ferradas, Claudia Mónica. "Re-defining Anglo-Argentine literature : from travel writing to travelling identities." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13238/.
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This study proposes a definition of Anglo-Argentine literature, a literary corpus that has not been explicitly defined, and provides a reading list of Anglo-Argentine works on the basis of that definition. The research is based on the presupposition that Anglo-Argentine texts can be used to contribute to an intercultural approach to language and literature teaching in the Argentine higher education context. Such texts can encourage reflection on how writing on Argentina in English has contributed to constructing Argentina's multiple identities. Therefore, compiling the titles that make up the corpus of Anglo-Argentine writing, making it available and analysing it critically is the contribution that this thesis aims to make. To make the findings available to the Argentine ELT (English Language Teaching) community, a webpage accompanies the thesis: http://claudiaferradas.net. The site provides access to the reading list with links to digital publications, intercultural materials on Anglo-Argentine texts and critical articles derived from the thesis. The compilation of texts does not aim to be exhaustive; it is a critical presentation of the titles identified in terms of the intercultural objectives stated above. As a result, not all titles are discussed in the same degree of detail and some are simply mentioned on the reading list. Two works are selected as 'focus texts' for in-depth analysis and all the works identified are grouped into 'series' with common denominators, which may be thematic or connected to the context of production. As regards the analytical focus, the thesis traces the construction of the other in early texts and how this representation is reinforced or modified in later works. The other is understood both as the unfamiliar landscape and the native inhabitants: both original inhabitants ('Indians' in the literature) and Gauchos. Urban white creoles are also part of the discussion when the narrator's gaze focuses on them. The theoretical framework for this analysis is based upon post-colonial theory and the notion of transculturation. Finally, the thesis extends the concept of Anglo-Argentine literature to works produced in English by Argentine writers whose mother tongue is not English and who do not have English-speaking ancestors. This leads to a reconsideration of the definition initially proposed to approach Anglo- Argentine literature as a fluid third place, a subversion of the binary implied by the adjective 'Anglo-Argentine' that embraces travelling identities in constant process of construction in contact with otherness.
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Hou, Yu-Ying. "A Critical Content Analysis of International Travel Experiences in Children's Literature." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/293617.
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This study examines representations of intercultural learning in global children’s literature through critical content analysis. Cosmopolitanism provides a vision to connect individuals to the global communities through a critical lens. According to Rizvi (2009), intercultural learning should bridge the local and the global, move between cultures and communities, and develop transnational compassion and collaboration. Intercultural learning involves explorations of culture, active participation in the world, and critical thinking on issues that are normally taken for granted. Intercultural learning is not just learning about other cultures but focuses on individuals’ awareness of their roles in the world and collaboration with people from global communities to make the world a better place. With this idea in mind, global children’s literature is a useful resource to introduce readers to the global community and to their responsibility in the world. This study is based on the importance of engaging with high quality global children’s literature to widen and deepen readers’ worldviews. Because readers are influenced by what they read and share, how books depict cross cultural experiences and international communities is crucial. Therefore, how books portray intercultural learning experiences in a global context is important to examine. This study provides a new lens on global children’s literature because limited research has been done to understand how the idea of intercultural learning through international travel is portrayed in books at a time when many readers have the opportunity to travel across the continents. The theoretical framework of this study consists of intercultural theories, global competency and critical literacy. This study looks at culture as ways of living that involve people’s thoughts, values and engagements in daily life. In addition, two intercultural learning theories are used to examine the protagonists’ learning including a continuum of intercultural learning by David Hoopes (1979) and a developmental model of intercultural sensitivity by Milton Bennett (1986, 1993, 2004, 2009). Theories relate to global education such as global competence by Hanvey (2000) and Case (1993), intercultural communicative competence by Michael Byram (1997), and cosmopolitanism by Rizvi (2005, 2006,2007, 2008, 2009 ) and Calhoun (2002). These theories inform my notion of intercultural learning in different ways. In addition, critical literacy is crucial to this study because it focuses on the characteristics that allow individuals to discover their role, relationship and responsibility with others in the world. Nine children and young adult’s realistic fiction novels were selected for this study. The books all involved protagonists’ explorations of new cultures, places, and people as they traveled to another country for short term visits. All of them have close relationships with at least one local friend. Critical content analysis is used to examine the text from a critical point of view to understand whether the international journey enables the protagonists to critically examine their privileges and responsibility in the world. In this study, critical literacy supports my concept of intercultural learning and it is also used to develop useful thinking tools (adapted from Jones, 2006) to examine the texts from a deeper perspective. First, the findings indicate that intercultural learning is portrayed with exoticism in this text set. In several of the books, international travel is associated with romance and exotic cultural icons. Secondly, insider authors and the authors who have close relationships with the groups they write about are more careful about cultural authenticity than outsider authors. Many of the insider authors care about the cultures they wrote about; therefore, they embed social messages in the stories. Additionally, several writers employ a writing formula to depict international travelers’ intercultural learning process. The formula does not reflect readers’ diverse cultural backgrounds in the current world. Lastly, throughout the journey, only a few protagonists develop critical consciousness regarding their roles in the global community. Conclusions from the analysis suggest the need for more sophisticated global children’s literature that highlights international travel and cross cultural relationships. The implication section provides recommendations to educators, teacher educators, and publishers and suggestions for further research.
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Kanzler, Katja. "Kansas, Oz, and the Magic Land: A wizard's travels through the Iron Curtain." Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A28584.
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The following essay addresses Alexandr Volko's adaption and appropriation of L. Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz". Exceedingly popular throughthout the Easern bloc, Volkov's novels have endeared a magical setting and cast of characters to readers who rarely knew of their American origins. I discuss the Wizard's 'travels' throught the Iron Curtain as an incidence of cultural exchange at once motivated by and subverting Cold War cultural politics. I suggest that it is not so much the changes to which Baum's narrative universe has been subjected on its way from West to East that makes this case study remarkable but the ways in wich the two Wizards have been interpreted to fit contestable notions of 'American' and 'Soviet' culture.
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Laverick, Jane A. "A world for the subject and a world of witnesses for the evidence : developments in geographical literature and the travel narrative in seventeenth-century England." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2250.
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In the latter half of the seventeenth century, the first-person overseas voyage narrative enjoyed an unprecedented degree of popularity in England. This thesis is concerned with texts written by travellers and the increasing perception that such information might be useful to those engaged in newly-developing scientific specialisms. It draws upon a wide range of texts including geographiae, physico-theological texts, first-person voyage narratives and imaginary voyage prose fictions. The main focus of the thesis is on the movement away from traditional encyclopaedic geographical textbooks whose treatment of non-European countries comprised an amalgam of unattributed information and a mass of traditional and erudite beliefs, towards a priontising of eyewitness accounts by named observers. Following an introductory survey of the production of an indigenous body of geographical literature in England, the first chapter traces the decline in popularity of traditional geographiae and the separation of regional description from general theories of the earth. The second chapter shows how in the Restoration period the concerted efforts of Fellows of the newly-established Royal Society resulted in a significant increase in the number of overseas travel narratives being published. The third chapter looks at the way in which the Royal Society's campaign developed from its initiation in 1666 to the close of the century, focusing on the response of travellers to the Society's requests for information. The fourth chapter considers the way in which earlier accounts were advertised as fulfilling contemporary expectations of this type of discourse. The fifth and sixth chapters concern fictitious voyage narratives. Imitative of a genre the value of which was increasingly seen as residing in its veracity, these fictions adapted in accordance with the changes being introduced to real voyage accounts whilst continuing to perpetuate the archaic myths and traditional beliefs which had been ehminated from factual geographical description. Appended to the thesis is a list of accounts of voyages and travels outside Europe, printed in the Philosophical Transactions (1665-1700). Also listed are reviews and abstracts of geographical texts, inquiries concerning specific locations and directions and instructions aimed at seamen, with brief biographical information about the authors to indicate the range of contributors to that journal.
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Cordiviola, Alfredo. "Travels in the land of the future : Richard Burton in Brasil (1865-1868)." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243760.
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Fitzpatrick, Kristin. "What she carries with her : gender and American national identity in nineteenth-century women's travel narratives /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6616.
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Wispinski, Matthew. "Re-exploring travel literature, a discourse-centred approach to the text type." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq24271.pdf.
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Spradlin, Derrick Loren. ""Drawn into unknown lands" frontier travel and possibility in early American literature /." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2005%20Fall/Dissertation/SPRADLIN_DERRICK_39.pdf.
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Newman, Danny Lawrence. "19th-century Tunisian travel literature on Europe : vistas of a new world." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401764.
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Hållen, Nicklas. "Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-46365.
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This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. The author argues that objects are deeply involved in the construction of pre-modern and modern spheres that the travelling subject moves between. The objects in the travel accounts are studied in relation to a contextual background of Victorian commodity and object culture, epitomised by the 1851 Great Exhibition and the birth of the modern anthropological museum. The four analysis chapters investigate the roles of objects in ethnographical and geographical writing, in ideological discussions about the transformative powers of colonial trade, and in narratives about the arrival of the book in the colonial periphery. As the analysis shows, however, objects tend not to behave as they are expected to do. Instead of marking temporal differences, descriptions of objects are typically unstable and riddled with contradictions and foreground the ambivalence that characterises colonial literature.
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Armstrong, Catherine. "Writing North America in the seventeenth century : English representations in print and manuscript /." Aldershot [u.a.] : Ashgate, 2007. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip076/2006101292.html.
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Al-Itani, Samia. "The travels of AbuÌ? Al-ThanaÌ?' al-AluÌ?siÌ? : Arabic Rihlah literature in the 19th century." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.405072.
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This thesis comprises an edition and analysis of the two travelogues written by the Iraqi Mahmüd Shihäb al-Din al-Alüsi (1802-53), who was Mufti of Baghdad during the first half of the nineteenth century. It is divided into two parts; the core part is the Arabic edition of the two travelogues, Nashwat al-Shumül and Nashwat al-Mudiiml, based on a detailed study of six key Arabic manuscripts. The second part is subdivided into three chapters. The first of these, `Ottoman Society during al-Alüsi's era (1802-53)', investigates the social, political, economic and religious background to the Mufti's life. It deals therefore with issues such as his early life and education, his often strained relationship with the ruling Ottoman government, and the clash between his religious conservatism and the latter's radical reform policies. The second chapter, 'Development and Transformation of a Literary Genre', offers an overview of the rihlah travelogue genre and its development from early Islamic times up until the nineteenth century. It encompasses the travelogues of Ibn Jubayr and Ibn Battüta, two travel writers who helped to establish the rihlah as a bone fide mode of literary expression which would subsequently prove of critical importance to historians of Islamic societies. The third chapter concludes the thesis with a discussion of al-Alüsi's travelogues in the overall context of the genre's development, and, more specifically with a comparative analysis between his approach to travel writing and that of his contemporaries such as al-Tahtäwi and al-Tantäwi. In this way it is hoped that the life of this fascinating and historically significant individual will be recorded and given its rightful place alongside the other major travel writers in Islamic history. Caught in the politico-religious tensions and intrigues of his time, the character of al-Alüsi's is revealing not only on a psychological level but also as evidence of the broader societal developments in Islam, as the Ottoman sultanate in Istanbul impinged directly on Iraq. al-Alüsi's unique and unprecedented contribution to-the rihläh genre gives us considerable insight into the inter-ethnic rivalries and fundamental changes in the role of religion in society symptomatic of this period in Middle Eastern history
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Torrão, Filho Amilcar 1968. "A arquitetura da alteridade : a cidade luso-brasileira na literatura de viagem : (1783-1845)." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/280679.
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Orientador: Maria Stella Martins BrescianiTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: Este trabalho tem como objetivo rever algumas imagens da cidade luso-brasileira nas narrativas de viagem de autores franceses e britânicos, que foram muitas vezes incorporadas pela historiografia. Procuro em algumas definições do gênero literatura de viagem, maneiras de compreender como se formam as imagens conceituais sobre a cidade brasileira e como o espaço urbano serve, neste período, como um espelho da alteridade entre a Europa ¿civilizada¿ e ¿polida¿ e os territórios de administração ou origem portuguesa, considerados decadentes e ¿bárbaros¿, no período de superação dos vínculos coloniais e de criação do Estado Nacional brasileiro. Meu objetivo não é reconstituir uma suposta ¿realidade¿ das cidades, como elas eram quando visitadas por estes viajantes, mas verificar como questões retóricas, de estilo e teorias prévias, trazidas em suas bagagens, condicionam a descrição das experiências do mundo tangível
Abstract: The goal of my work is to provide a review of images of the Luso-Brazilian cities that were often incorporated by historiography in the narratives of French and British authors. From the travel literature genre, I investigate ways to understand how conceptual images about the Brazilian cities and the urban space for the period of 1783 through 1844 serve as a mirror of the differences between the ¿civilized¿ and ¿refined¿ Europe and the territories of Portuguese administration or origin, which were considered as decadents and ¿barbarians¿ during the period of surpass of colonial ties and the creation of the Brazilian National State. Rather than to reconstruct a supposed ¿reality¿ of the cities or how they were when visited by the travelers of the period, my objective is to verify how rhetorical questions of style and previous theories as represented by the contents brought within the traveler¿s luggage affect the description of the experiences of the tangible world
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Smith, Benjamin Lenox. "Writing Amrika: Literary Encounters with America in Arabic Literature." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13095487.
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My dissertation, Writing Amrika: Literary Encounters with America in Arabic Literature is an examination of this cross-cultural literary encounter primarily through fictional prose written in Arabic from the beginning of the 20th century into the 21st century. The texts studied in this dissertation are set in America, providing a unique entry point into questions about how Arab authors choose to represent Arab characters experiencing their American surroundings. While each text is treated as a unique literary production emerging from a contingent historical moment, an attempt is made to highlight the continuities and ruptures that exist in both the content and form of these texts spanning a century of the Arab literary experience with America. I argue that this body of literature can be understood through its own literary history of the American encounter in Arabic literature; a literary history in dialogue with an East-West encounter that has more frequently represented the western 'Other' through European characters and locales. In focusing on the process of identification by Arab characters in America this dissertation argues that the American encounter initiates a particular ambivalence resulting in multiple, and often contradictory, identifications on behalf of the Arab characters which result in poignant crises and strained narrative resolutions.Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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Dubrov, Andrew. "Rational Enchantment| On the Travel Writings of Cendrars, Leiris and Michaux." Thesis, New York University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10261008.
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In the 19th century, writers like Chateaubriand, Nerval, and Flaubert traveled in search of sublime, exotic transport that still existed (they believed) outside of France. However, this tradition changed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With the advent of a modernity defined by calculated rationalism and progress, many writers began to lament the death of travel as a sublime, writerly experience. To paraphrase Sartre’s Roquentin, they mourned the death or dearth of adventure and enchantment left in the world.
In my dissertation, I read the travel memoirs of three authors who look for ways of overcoming this disenchantment of the world: the futurist and vagabond Blaise Cendrars, the surrealist ethnographer Michel Leiris, and the heteroclite traveler-poet Henri Michaux. I examine how each of these authors develops a particular method of travel that mixes poetic desire with the technological, social, and political realities of the modern world; Cendrars through a fascination with speed and vehicles, Leiris through ethnography, and Michaux through an obsession with ethical practices of self-control. Each author’s method, I show, leads him to form what the critic Michel Deguy calls a poéthique — writing that finds enchantment through reason and engagement with the real world. The title of my dissertation, Rational Enchantment, then, describes this poéthique process. In other words, I show how, through travel, Cendrars, Leiris, and Michaux cultivate representations of enchantment that, in turn, contribute to the re-enchantment the world.
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Mazzeo, Tilar Jenon. "Producing the Romantic 'literary' : travel literature, plagiarism, and the Italian Shelley/Byron circle /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9412.
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Pitman, Thea. "Cuadernos De Viaje : contemporary Mexican travel-chronicles." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314058.
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Hiller, Alice. "Paradise traduced : transatlantic travel writing, 1777-1840." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248215.
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Wood, Jennifer Linhart. "Sounding Otherness in Early Modern Theater and Travel Writing." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3587221.
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My dissertation explores how sound informs the representation of cross-cultural interactions within early modern drama and travel writing. "Sounding" implies the process of producing music or noise, but it also suggests the attempt to make meaning of what one hears. "Otherness" in this study refers to a foreign presence outside of the listening body, as well as to an otherness that is already inherent within. Sounding otherness enacts a bi-directional exchange between a culturally different other and an embodied self; this exchange generates what I term the sonic uncanny, whereby the otherness interior to the self vibrates with sounds of otherness exterior to the body. The sonic uncanny describes how sounds that are perceived as foreign become familiar through the vibratory touch of the soundwave that attunes a body to its sonic environment or soundscape. Sounds of foreign Eastern and New World Indian otherness become part of English and European travelers; at the same time, these travelers sound their own otherness in Indian spaces. Sounding otherness occurs in the travel narratives of Jean de Lèry, Thomas Dallam, Thomas Coryate, and John Smith. Cultural otherness is also sounded by the English through their theatrical representations of New World and Oriental otherness in masques including The Masque of Flowers, and plays like Robert Greene's Alphonsus, respectively; Shakespeare's The Tempest combines elements of East and West into a new sound—"something rich and strange." These dramatic entertainments suggest that the theater, as much as a foreign land, can function as a sonic contact zone.
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Chang, Na. "The East and the West in the travel writings of the late medieval East and West." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708975.
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Corso, Sandro. "De inventio Sardiniæ : the idea of Sardinia in historical and travel writing 1780-1955." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7888.
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This thesis investigates the way the national identity of Sardinia was perceived in travel literature – and more particularly the way writing about travel experiences contributed to shape identity, both of the visited place and of its inhabitants. The thesis draws from different sources (travelogues, belles lettres, history books); the work reflects therefore a rather eclectic panorama. For obvious reasons the research field has been circumscribed in time and space, but , but aims at drawing general conclusions, i.e. assessing whether national identities are the result of an endogenous process, or rather are influenced by exogenous elaborations. As regards geographical delimitation we restricted our inquiry to the island of Sardinia for two main reasons: i) it is isolated not only geographically but also culturally and has never been a conventional destination along the Grand Tour routes; ii) up to the first half of the twentieth century the island had a reputation for being an “unknown” or “forgotten” land. As regards time, the choice was to concentrate on modern times, that is approximately between the second half of the 18th and the first half of the 20th century. Thereafter, the coming of the post-industrial society, mass tourism, faster means of transport, the standardizing effect of globalization changed the idea of travelling, leading some to argue that the birth of post-modern tourism implied the end of travel, or at least a totally new attitude towards travel, that has been defined post-modern. When D.H. Lawrence wrote that Sardinia had “no history, no date, no race, no offering” he was drawing from a consolidated image of the island as an unknown land rather than on its millenary history. The Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda challenged this idea in the first quarter of the 20th century by countering the codes elaborated in the island – namely the language code, the common law and the rustic life and passions – to the civilized way of life of industrialized European societies. The thesis concludes that the making of the identity of Sardinia was the result of the interaction between these two views.
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Armstrong, Catherine. "Representations of North American 'place' and 'potential' in English travel literature, 1607-1660." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2004. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2628/.
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This thesis analyses the representations of North America in English travel narratives between the years 1607-1660. Texts in both print and manuscript format are examined to discover how authors described the geography, climate, landscape, flora and fauna of America, as well as the settlements established there by the English. The thesis is mostly concerned with literature concerning Virginia and New England, although the settlements of Newfoundland, Maine and Maryland are also briefly mentioned. The first chapter describes the methodology of the thesis and locates its place alongside the existing literature. A chapter explaining the pre-history of English involvement in North America in the reign of Elizabeth I follows. Chapter Three describes the connection between printing and adventuring on which the thesis is predicted, explaining how the authors’ intentions and experiences affected their portrayal of the New World. The ways in which authors understood the geography and climate of America are explored in Chapter Four, including the influence of European thinking and the writers’ experiences in America itself. The landscape, including rivers, mountains and forests are examined next in chapter five, with a special focus on the Englishmen’s subduing of the landscape and their reactions to its potential. Chapters Six and Seven deal with the flora and fauna of the New World, tracing how the settlers’ initial high hopes of using the diversity of wildlife they encountered gave way to the realisation that familiar crops and animals imported from Europe would prove more useful than those found locally, with a few notable exceptions, such as tobacco. Chapters Eight and Nine analyse the changing representations of the English settlements themselves, by comparing the English experiences in Virginia and those of New England. Again, initial hopes give way to an acceptance of a less idealistic vision for the plantations. Chapter Ten brings the focus of the thesis back to England, asking how printed information about the New World was transmitted around the country by various practitioners of the printing trade, and who was able to digest this information. The representation of America, not only in travel narratives, but also in other forms of literature such as ballads, poetry and plays, are reviewed more broadly in chapter eleven, and an attempt is made to define the responses of individual and collective readers to the news from the New World that they gathered. In its conclusion, the thesis explores the influence of this literature on the new scientific thinking and on England’s relationship with her colonies.
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Knowles, Sam Blyth. "Between travel writing and transnational literature : Michael Ondaatje, Vikram Seth, and Amitav Ghosh." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.589006.
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In this thesis, I make an in-depth study of the travel-related work of three authors: Michael Ondaatje, Vikram Seth, and Arnitav Ghosh. They have all written travelogues, the importance of which - in terms of the centrality of the idea of travel to their identities and works - has been critically underestimated; my work is intended to redress this imbalance, and to assert the importance of the experiences and consequences of travel to the lives and authorships of these three authors. I explore the importance of travel through a focus on the concept of transnationalism in the work of all three - whether this transnationalism is textual, personal, or geopolitical, it provides a crucial lens through which to view the work of Ondaatje, Seth, and Ghosh. This dual focus on travel and transnationalism is reflected in the structure of the thesis. After a critical introduction, in which I map out the terrain of my argument and accept and reject certain key methodological terms, the work falls into three main, author-focused chapters. In each of these, I start with a biographical analysis of the author and his situation; this leads into an analysis of his principal work of travel writing (Ondaatje's Running in the Family, Seth's From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet, and Ghosh's In an Antique Land); and in the final section of each chapter I study an example of the author's transnationalliterature from the end of the twentieth century (respectively, Anil's Ghost, An Equal Music, and The Glass Palace).
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Horan, Marion. "Trafficking in danger working-class women and narratives of sexual danger in English and United States anti-prostitution campaigns, 1875-1914 /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2006.
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