Search results for "Travel Literature"
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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…
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 …
Periodisme i literatura : Aurora Bertrana
2008
Aquest article s'inscriu dins del projecte Concepcions i discursos sobre la modernitat en la literatura catalana dels segles XIX i XX, del Grup d'Estudis de Literatura Catalana Contemporània de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (referència HUM2005-01109 del MEC), i neix de dos estudis anteriors (Real 2006a i 2006b), als quals remeto per a una explicació més detallada tant amb relació a Bertrana com al context cultural del moment, en especial pel que fa a la literatura d'autora.
"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) …