Search results for "Travel Literature"
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Blackwood's Magazine - "Nodier's Promenade"
2013
We have translated and annotated an extended review from "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine" reporting on the publication, in English translation, of "Promenade de Dieppe aux montagnes d'Écosse" by Charles Nodier ("Promenade from Dieppe to the Mountains of Scotland", Edinburg, Blackwood, London, Cadell, 1822). The reference of the original article is as follows: "Nodier's Promenade", Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine", march 1822, vol. XI (January - June 1822).
The Sicily of the Voyage Pittoresque, with a Quick (and Very "Personal") Gaze at the Travel Literature
2019
Travel literature does not constitute an objective source: neither the images nor the texts escape the cliches of the time in which they were written. In the age of the Grand Tour, western culture appropriated the history of Sicily and the South, andit did so by selecting and distorting data and information. From a personal point of view, the author underlines the legacies, born between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which still condition current historiography, perception of places and the collective imagination. Travel literature does not constitute an objective source: neither the images nor the texts escape the clichés of the time in which they were written. In the age of the …
In partenza verso il majhul. Italiani ed egiziani in fuga per Alessandria d'Egitto
2019
This article analyzes two novels set in Alexandria. The first one is "Cortile a Cleopatra" by the Italian writer Fausta Cialente. The second one is "Nobody sleeps in Alexandria" (Lâ ahad yanâm fî'l-Iskandariyya) by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid. The analysis focus on actions that characterize the genre of travel literature in which the traveler is expected to perform two actions: leaving then returning. If the traveler does not come back to the starting point, his experience is not considered as "travel", rather as "change of residence". But it does not always work out that way. In the two novels, the protagonists leave with intentions of ever coming back. At the same time, their departure includes …
Ceļojumu aprakstu izdošanas tradīcijas latviešu grāmatniecībā
2015
Lai gan ceļojumu literatūra ieņem savu noteiktu vietu gan veikalu, gan bibliotēku grāmatu plauktos, ceļojumu aprakstu izdošana un to ietekme uz lasītājiem, ir maz pētīts temats. Līdz šim nav apkopots visu izdoto ceļojumu aprakstu izdevumu klāsts Latvijā. Pētījuma mērķis ir izpētīt ceļojumu aprakstu izdevumu izdošanas tradīcijas Latvijā, kā arī apkopot Latvijā izdotos ceļojumu aprakstu izdevumus, salīdzināt latviešu un ārzemju ceļojumu izdevumus un to īpatsvaru. Darba ietvaros tika analizētas ceļojumu aprakstu definīcijas. Darba gaitā tiek veidota ceļojumu aprakstu grāmatu bibliogrāfija laika posmam no 1991.gada līdz 2014.gadam. Izveidotā bibliogrāfija to veido 106 Latvijā ceļojumu aprakstu …
The Uprooting in the Narrative Language of Foreign Land by Jonathan Raban
2022
The language and narrative style of Jonathan Raban, a contemporary English writer author of the novel Foreign Land (1985), seem to find in the themes of uprooting and self-searching a metaphorical and existential interpretation that in the search for identity alternates the desire to return to the origins, recovering lost affections and beloved places, with the attraction to the unknown. In this oscillation, masterfully rendered by the metaphorical and figurative language of the novel, Raban tells the awareness that the return to the origins is not always a point of arrival but a further turning point in life. The article focuses on some particularly effective linguistic and semantic aspect…
Los viajes de Maximiliano a España y Brasil: el largo camino hacia el imperio mexicano
1970
En mayo de 1864 Maximiliano de Austria llega a la costa mexicana en el que será su último viaje, que culminará con su ejecución tres años después. Mucho se ha escrito sobre las razones que le impulsaron a aceptar la corona de México, un país tan alejado en todos los sentidos de su entorno cultural, sin embargo, años antes Maximiliano había viajado a España y a Brasil (a España en dos ocasiones) y estas experiencias, si no determinantes, influyeron en gran medida en la decisión del Archiduque, que vio la oportunidad de hacer realidad un sueño que se gestó en su viaje a España y se afianzó durante su estancia en Brasil, como se puede extraer de sus memorias de viaje. In May of 1864, Maximilia…
"Podróż dla przyjemności przez Górny Śląsk". Obraz krainy konstruowany przez niemieckiego turystę na progu XIX wieku
2017
Leisure trip through Upper Silesia is the text of a German author anonymously published in the „Schlesische Provinzial-Blätter” in 1805 (No. 41; German title – Lustreise durch Oberschlesien). Until now, it was perceived in the political dimension. It was believed that the text was to present glorious development of the region under Prussian rule and, therefore, it was interpreted as a justification for the benefits born out of conquest. The article’s author concluded that the content of this guide can be perceived slightly different, namely, in the perspective of developing travel literature in its various forms in the nineteenth century. Only through a combination of dual perspectives: 1) …
Un caso di sternismo: le "Avventure e osservazioni" di Filippo Pananti
1997
Il saggio studia l'influsso di Sterne sulle "Avventure e osservazioni" di Pananti e su altre relazioni di viaggio di primo Ottocento. The essay deals about Sterne's influence on Pananti's and othes authors' travel literature
Paolo Rumiz pro Karpaty, rusyniv i rujiny istoriji
2022
Writer, journalist and traveler Paolo Rumiz is one of the most important representatives of the Italian travel literature. His published works describe two trips to Ukraine in 1999 and 2008. In particular, this writer travels through the Ukrainian Carpathians. In his writings he uses the term Ruthenia, talks about the identity of the Ruthenians, writes about the peculiarities of the character of the local peoples. The aim of the present article is to present to the reader the works of an Italian expert on the Eastern European ethno-national context, to offer an Ukrainian translation and to describe the main characteristics of the works of this Italian writer.
La poesia infantil en el sistema literari valencià actual:un estudi de cas
2022
L’objectiu principal d’aquest article és definir les característiques i tendències principals d’un subsistema poètic concret: la poesia per a infants publicada en llengua catalana a la Comunitat Valenciana al nou mil·lenni. Més en concret, es tracta de comprovar si les tendències definides per la literatura acadèmica com a característiques i dominants dins de la poesia per a infants de l’àmbit estatal es troben també a l’àmbit valencià. Per a arribar al nostre objectiu hem seleccionat un corpus que es correspon a l’única col·lecció de poesia diferenciada per a infants existent a la Comunitat Valenciana: «Vagó de versos», de l’editorial Andana. Així doncs, una vegada establert i descrit el c…