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Metamorphoses of travel writing : across theories, genres, centuries and literary traditions /

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, Po...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Moroz, Grzegorz, Sztachelska, Jolanta
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.
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  • Machine generated contents note: The Mobile Body: Prolegomena to the Corporeality of Travel / Zbigniew Bialas
  • Travel Book as a Genre in the Anglophone Literary Tradition / Grzegorz Moroz
  • Travel Narrative as a Tragedy: Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild / Barbara Klonowska
  • Sluggish Movements and Solid Illusions of the Modern Road Poem: William Carlos Williams's "Spring and All" and Rosmarie Waldrop's "The Road is Everywhere or Stop This Body" / Paulin Ambrozy-Lis
  • "Voyage through Death to Life upon these Shores": The Middle Passage and its Poetic Representations in Robert Hayden's "Middle Passage" and Sonia Sanchez's "Improvisation" / Jerzy Kamionowski
  • Travel As a Means of Self-Recognition in the New York School Poems by Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch / Anna Szczepanek-Guz
  • Travel Writings of Blaise Cendrars / Agnieszka Wloczewska
  • Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad as a Post-Tourist Travelogue / Joanna Dybiec
  • Note continued: American Travel Books of Charles Dickens and Henryk Sienkiewicz / Aleksandra Budrewicz-Beratan
  • Writing with Devotion, Drawing with Light: Images of the Americas in Nineteenth Century Hungarian Travelogues / Balàzs Venkovits
  • The Figure of the Writer-Traveller in French Accounts of Journeys to the Orient in the Nineteenth Century / Catherine Robert
  • Wandering Poet: Juliusz Slowacki's Journey to the East / Aleksandra Niemirycz
  • A Honeymoon as an Educational Journey in The Polaniecki Family by Henryk Sienkiewicz and A Life by Guy de Maupassant / Krystyna Kralkowska-Gqtkowska
  • Correlations between Language and Morality in Gulliver's Travels / Rocio G. Sumillera
  • Moral Implications of the Journey to the Other World: Henry Fielding's A Journey from This World to the Next / Jakub Lipski
  • "The Imprint of the Desert": Space, Time and Self in Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands and Robyn Davidson's Tracks / Malgorzata Rutkowska
  • Note continued: Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines: Cultural Perspectives / Zdzislaw Glebocki
  • The New Memoirs of a Cavalier: Keith Douglas's Alamein to Zem Zem as Travel Literature / Jacek Wiiniewski
  • Travel Book as a Form of Intercultural Dialogue: Imperium by Ryszard Kapugchiski / Magdalena Horodecka
  • Do We Travel Around the Same World? On Selected Translations of Ryszard Kapugciiiski's Books / Krzysztof Hejwowski
  • "Inaccessible Background": Prolegomena to the Studies of Polish Mountaineering Literature / Marek Pacukiewicz
  • "Innocents Abroad"? Ghostly Presences, Present Absences and the Quest for the "it" experience: Modern-Day Euro-American Travellers and Their Off-Map Spaces / Julia Szoltysek
  • Olga Tokarczuk's Bieguni as a Postmodern Travel Narrative / Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich
  • Stereotype as a Vehicle of the Identity of Destination in Practical Travel Literature / Krzysztof Kosecki.