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The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel

2008-05-05 Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel by : Stephen M. Levin

Download or read book The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel written by Stephen M. Levin. This book was released on 2008-05-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel explores the themes of alienation and displacement in a genre of post-World War II novels that portrays the pursuit of an authentic travel experience in a culturally unfamiliar place. Levin explores two questions: why does travel to an "undiscovered" place—one imagined outside the bounds of modernity—remain an enduring preoccupation in western civilization; and how does the representation of adventure travel change in the era of mass culture, when global capitalism expands at a rapid pace. The book argues that whereas travel writers between the wars romanticized their journeys overseas, travel writing after World War II takes an increasingly melancholic and nihilistic view of a commercial society in which adventure travel no longer proves capable of producing a sense of authentic selfhood. Through close analysis of specific texts and authors, the book provides a rich discussion of anglophone literature in the cultural context of the twentieth-century. It examines the capacity of popular culture for social critique, the relationship between leisure travel and postcolonial cultures, and the idealization of selfhood and authenticity in modern and postmodern culture. The study reflects the best potential of interdisciplinary scholarship, and will prove influential for anyone working in the fields of contemporary literature, cultural theory, and cross-cultural studies.

The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel

2008-05-05 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2008-05-05
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Book Synopsis The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel by : Stephen M. Levin

Download or read book The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel written by Stephen M. Levin. This book was released on 2008-05-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel examines the aesthetics of adventure travel since World War II by exploring the many referents travelers evoke as they imagine their escapes: the lingering memory of the war, the disintegration of empire, and the rapid growth of capitalism and commercial culture.

Travel and Ethics

2013-12-13 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2013-12-13
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Book Synopsis Travel and Ethics by : Corinne Fowler

Download or read book Travel and Ethics written by Corinne Fowler. This book was released on 2013-12-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the recent increase in scholarly activity regarding travel writing and the accompanying proliferation of publications relating to the form, its ethical dimensions have yet to be theorized with sufficient rigour. Drawing from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, literary studies and modern languages, the contributors in this volume apply themselves to a number of key theoretical questions pertaining to travel writing and ethics, ranging from travel-as-commoditization to encounters with minority languages under threat. Taken collectively, the essays assess key critical legacies from parallel disciplines to the debate so far, such as anthropological theory and postcolonial criticism. Also considered, and of equal significance, are the ethical implications of the form’s parallel genres of writing, such as ethnography and journalism. As some of the contributors argue, innovations in these genres have important implications for the act of theorizing travel writing itself and the mode and spirit in which it continues to be conducted. In the light of such innovations, how might ethical theory maintain its critical edge?

Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America

2010-02-15 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2010-02-15
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Book Synopsis Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America by : Claire Lindsay

Download or read book Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America written by Claire Lindsay. This book was released on 2010-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a new approach to travel writing about Latin America by examining ‘domestic’ journey narratives that have been produced by travellers from the continent itself and largely in Spanish. Historically, travel writing about Latin America has been written primarily from the perspective of the foreign, often European, traveller. As such, and following the large influx of military, scientific, and leisure travellers in the region since its colonisation, much of this foreign travel writing has depicted the continent in predominantly exoticist and/or imperialist terms. Lindsay explores how Latin American travellers have conceived and constructed narratives about travel at home and considers how such texts (many of them available in English translation or with subtitles) function to counter or corroborate long-standing myths about the continent. Through a series of regionally- and thematically-oriented case studies that engage with key issues, themes and debates in both Latin American and travel studies, Lindsay provides the first sustained interdisciplinary study of contemporary domestic travel narratives about the region and will also comprise an important intervention into methodological debates about travel and travel writing.

Interpersonal Encounters in Contemporary Travel Writing

2015-03-01 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2015-03-01
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Book Synopsis Interpersonal Encounters in Contemporary Travel Writing by : Catharine Mee

Download or read book Interpersonal Encounters in Contemporary Travel Writing written by Catharine Mee. This book was released on 2015-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical study examines the theme of interpersonal encounter in a range of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century travel writing written in French and Italian. Structured typologically, each chapter focuses on a typical activity that brings traveller-protagonists into contact with other people. Drawing on literary critical studies of travel writing, sociological and anthropological approaches to tourism, as well as research in French and Italian area studies, ‘Interpersonal Encounters in Contemporary Travel Writing’ locates the concept of encounter within the context of modern tourism.

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