Author: Peter HulmePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521786522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Table of contents
The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing
Author: Peter HulmePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521786522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Table of contents
The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing
Author: Tim YoungsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521874475
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Surveying various works of travel literature, this text argues that travel writing redefines the myriad genres it often comprises.
The Cambridge History of Travel Writing
Author: Nandini DasPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110861681X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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.
The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing
Author: Alfred BendixenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521861098
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A stimulating overview of American journeys from the eighteenth century to the present.
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing
Author: Robert ClarkePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107153395
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This Companion addresses an exciting emerging field of literary scholarship that charts the intersections of postcolonial studies and travel writing.
The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism
Author: Pericles LewisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316224309
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
More than a century after its beginnings, modernism still has the power to shock, alienate or challenge readers. Modernist art and literature remain thought of as complex and difficult. This introduction explains in a readable, lively style how modernism emerged, how it is defined, and how it developed in different forms and genres. Pericles Lewis offers students a survey of literature and art in England, Ireland and Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century. He also provides an overview of critical thought on modernism and its continuing influence on the arts today, reflecting the interests of current scholarship in the social and cultural contexts of modernism. The comparative perspective on Anglo-American and European modernism shows how European movements have influenced the development of English-language modernism. Illustrated with works of art and featuring suggestions for further study, this is the ideal introduction to understanding and enjoying modernist literature and art.
The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad
Author: John G. PetersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139457926
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Joseph Conrad is one of the most intriguing and important modernist novelists. His writing continues to preoccupy twenty-first-century readers. This introduction by a leading scholar is aimed at students coming to Conrad's work for the first time. The rise of postcolonial studies has inspired interest in Conrad's themes of travel, exploration, and racial and ethnic conflict. John Peters explains how these themes are explored in his major works, Nostromo, Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, as well as his short stories. He provides an essential overview of Conrad's fascinating life and career and his approach to writing and literature. A guide to further reading is included which points to some of the most useful secondary criticism on Conrad. This is a most comprehensive and concise introduction to studying Conrad, and will be essential reading for students of the twentieth-century novel and of modernism.
The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing
Author: Alfred BendixenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139827843
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Travel writing has always been intimately linked with the construction of American identity. Occupying the space between fact and fiction, it exposes cultural fault lines and reveals the changing desires and anxieties of both the traveller and the reading public. These specially-commissioned essays trace the journeys taken by writers from the pre-revolutionary period right up to the present. They examine a wide range of responses to the problems posed by landscapes found both at home and abroad, from the Mississippi and the Southwest to Europe and the Holy Land. Throughout, the contributors focus on the role played by travel writing in the definition and formulation of national identity, and consider the experiences of minority writers as well as canonical authors. This Companion forms an invaluable guide for students approaching this new, important and exciting subject for the first time.
Metamorphoses of Travel Writing
Author: Grzegorz MorozPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443820458
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This book reflects, comments on and adds to a fast growing field of travel writing studies. The twenty-five papers in this volume rely on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches and explore a diverse body of travel writing texts created over the last three hundred years in English, Polish, Hungarian and French. The book is divided into three parts. The first one includes papers which apply the findings of post-structuralism, generic and cultural criticism as well as narratology to explore theories, canons and genres in travel writing drawing material not only from non-fictional and fictional prose narratives but also from poetry and tragedy. The second and third parts contain papers on a wide selection of travel writing texts, both fictional and non-fictional, written in Anglophone, as well as other literary traditions. They are arranged chronologically: the second part is devoted to texts written in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while the third part focuses on those written in the twentieth and twenty first centuries.
The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing
Author: Debbie LislePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521867801
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book brings the 'serious' world of politics to the 'superficial' world of contemporary travel writing.