In Search of Tusitala
Author : Gavin Bell
Publisher : Picador
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,88 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing
Author : Debbie Lisle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113946096X
Book Description
To what extent do best-selling travel books, such as those by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Bruce Chatwin and Michael Palin, tell us as much about world politics as newspaper articles, policy documents and press releases? Debbie Lisle argues that the formulations of genre, identity, geopolitics and history at work in contemporary travel writing are increasingly at odds with a cosmopolitan and multicultural world in which 'everybody travels'. Despite the forces of globalization, common stereotypes about 'foreignness' continue to shape the experience of modern travel. The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing is concerned with the way contemporary travelogues engage with, and try to resolve, familiar struggles about global politics such as the protection of human rights, the promotion of democracy, the management of equality within multiculturalism and the reduction of inequality. This is a thoroughly interdisciplinary book that draws from international relations, literary theory, political theory, geography, anthropology and history.
The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing
Author : Tim Youngs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 2013-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521874475
Book Description
Surveying various works of travel literature, this text argues that travel writing redefines the myriad genres it often comprises.
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing
Author : Robert Clarke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108547613
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing offers readers an insight into the scope and range of perspectives that one encounters in this field of writing. Encompassing a diverse range of texts and styles, performances and forms, postcolonial travel writing recounts journeys undertaken through places, cultures, and communities that are simultaneously living within, through, and after colonialism in its various guises. The Companion is organized into three parts. Part I, 'Departures', addresses key theoretical issues, topics, and themes. Part II, 'Performances', examines a range of conventional and emerging travel performances and styles in postcolonial travel writing. Part III, 'Peripheries' continues to shift the analysis of travel writing from the traditional focus on Eurocentric contexts. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of developments in the field, appealing to students and teachers of travel writing and postcolonial studies.
The Quest for Robert Louis Stevenson
Author : John Cairney
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1913025942
Book Description
This guide follows a trail of places associated with Robert Louis Stevenson. John Cairney, perhaps best known for writing and starring in The Robert Burns Story, is one of the few people to have visited all the places on the RLS trail.
The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing
Author : Peter Hulme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 15,86 MB
Release : 2002-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107494443
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing brings together specialists from anthropology, history, literary and cultural studies to offer a broad and vibrant introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. This comprehensive introduction to the subject features specially commissioned contributions, including six essays surveying the period's travel writing; a further six focusing on geographical areas of particular interest - Arabia, the Amazon, Tahiti, Ireland, Calcutta, the Congo and California; and three final chapters analysing some of the theoretical and cultural dimensions to this enigmatic and influential genre of writing. Several invaluable tools are also provided, including an extensive list of further reading, and a detailed five-hundred year chronology listing important events and publications. This volume will be of interest to teachers and students alike.
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
Author : Caroline McCracken-Flesher
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1603291857
Book Description
Although Robert Louis Stevenson was a late Victorian, his work--especially Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde--still circulates energetically and internationally among popular and academic audiences and among young and old. Admired by Henry James, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jorge Luis Borges, Stevenson's fiction crosses the boundaries of genre and challenges narrow definitions of the modern and the postmodern. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," provides an introduction to the writer's life, a survey of the criticism of his work, and a variety of resources for the instructor. In part 2, "Approaches," thirty essays address such topics as Stevenson's dialogue with James about literature; his verse for children; his Scottish heritage; his wanderlust; his work as gothic fiction, as science fiction, as detective fiction; his critique of imperialism in the South Seas; his usefulness in the creative writing classroom; and how Stevenson encourages expansive thinking across texts, times, places, and lives.
Robert Louis Stevenson's Ethics for Rascals
Author : Elayne Wareing Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 2000-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 146282885X
Book Description
ETHICS FOR RASCALS spotlights the romantic adventures, provocative ethics, and playful philosophy of the prince of storytellers, Robert Louis Stevenson, quixotic wanderer and prototype for Sir James M. Barries Peter Pan. This unique introduction to RLS and his spirited mate, Fanny Osbourne -- who fell in love in the romantic environs of Paris and married under the spell of California's Big Sur-Monterey coast -- throws down the gauntlet, daring readers to turn every trial into an adventure, to do nothing that insults their own souls, and to have a little open-hearted fun along the way to El dorado. Recognizing the inner illumination of even the humblest life, Stevenson urges: "Find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all. In the joy of the actors lies the sense of any action. That is the explanation, that the excuse!"
Going Places
Author : Robert Burgin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 161069385X
Book Description
Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.
Moon Handbooks South Pacific
Author : David Stanley
Publisher : David Stanley
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 2004-12-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781566914116
Book Description
Travelers will find the best of the South Pacific in this guidebook that provides in-depth coverage of outdoor recreation. Complete with helpful maps, photographs and illustrations, as well as useful advice on food, entertainment, and money, this guidebook offers the tools travelers need for a uniquely personal experience.
