Author : Paul Smethurst
Publisher : Springer
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 32,26 MB
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137457252
This collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse. Internationally renowned, as well as emerging, scholars establish a critical milieu for travel writing studies, as well as offer a set of exemplars in the application of theory to travel writing.
Author : Carmen Andraş
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Aufsatzsammlung
ISBN : 9783832281977
Author : Steve Clark
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 27,74 MB
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9622099149
The fourteen chapters in this book examine various topics and contexts of travel writings on China, Japan and Southeast Asia. From the first Colombian on a trade mission to China, to French women travellers in Asia, and the opening of "Japan Fairs" in the US during the latter half of the nineteenth century, this book offers a kaleidoscopic glimpse of the various cultures in the eyes of their beholders coupled with insightful understanding of the various politics and relationships that are involved. While this book will appeal to expert scholars and students of travel literature and Asian studies, as well as those working on cultural studies, general readers will also find it an interesting and accessible addition to their collections.
Author : Garth Lean
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1785336037
Travel and Representation is a timely volume of essays that explores and re-examines the various convergences between literature, art, photography, television, cinema and travel. The essays do so in a way that appreciates the entanglement of representations and travel at a juncture in theoretical work that recognizes the limits of representation, things that lie outside of representation and the continuing power of representation. The emphasis is on the myriad ways travelers/scholars employ representation in their writing/analyses as they re-think the intersections between travelers, fields of representation, imagination, emotions and corporeal experiences in the past, the present and the future.
Author : Carl Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,1 MB
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1136720804
Concise and practical, Travel Writing is the ideal introduction for those new to the subject, as well as a crucial overview of the terminology, history and debates within the field.
Author : Samantha Zacher
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441121102
The Bible played a crucial role in shaping Anglo-Saxon national and cultural identity. However, access to Biblical texts was necessarily limited to very few individuals in Medieval England. In this book, Samantha Zacher explores how the very earliest English Biblical poetry creatively adapted, commented on and spread Biblical narratives and traditions to the wider population. Systematically surveying the manuscripts of surviving poems, the book shows how these vernacular poets commemorated the Hebrews as God's 'chosen people' and claimed the inheritance of that status for Anglo-Saxon England. Drawing on contemporary translation theory, the book undertakes close readings of the poems Exodus, Daniel and Judith in order to examine their methods of adaptation for their particular theologico-political circumstances and the way they portray and problematize Judaeo-Christian religious identities.
Author : Patrick Holland
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 1998
Category : American prose literature
ISBN : 9780472087068
Looks at how contemporary travel writing reflects gender, cultural history, and social class
Author : Michael Hitchcock
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8776940349
Tourism in Southeast Asia provides an up-to-date exploration of the state of tourism development and associated issues in one of the world's most dynamic tourism destinations. The volume takes a close look at many of the challenges facing Southeast Asian tourism at a critical stage of transition and transformation and following a recent series of crises and disasters. Building on and advancing the path-breaking Tourism in South-East Asia, produced by the same editors in 1993, it adopts a multidisciplinary approach and includes contributions from some of the leading researchers on tourism in Southeast Asia, presenting a number of fresh perspectives.
Author : Nandini Das
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110861681X
Bringing together original contributions from scholars across the world, this volume traces the history of travel writing from antiquity to the Internet age. It examines travel texts of several national or linguistic traditions, introducing readers to the global contexts of the genre. From wilderness to the urban, from Nigeria to the polar regions, from mountains to rivers and the desert, this book explores some of the key places and physical features represented in travel writing. Chapters also consider the employment in travel writing of the diary, the letter, visual images, maps and poetry, as well as the relationship of travel writing to fiction, science, translation and tourism. Gender-based and ecocritical approaches are among those surveyed. Together, the thirty-seven chapters here underline the richness and complexity of this genre.
Author : Noel B. Salazar
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845456610
As tourism service standards become more homogeneous, travel destinations worldwide are conforming yet still trying to maintain, or even increase, their distinctiveness. Based on more than two years of fieldwork in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Arusha, Tanzania, this book offers an in-depth investigation of the local-to-global dynamics of contemporary tourism. Each destination offers examples that illustrate how tour guide narratives and practices are informed by widely circulating imaginaries of the past as well as personal imaginings of the future.
