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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…
Intorno allo Stato da Mar: il viaggio del bailo Giorgio Giustinian da Costantinopoli a Venezia (1627)
2023
Presentation and analysis of the Relazione (Report) on the return voyage of Giorgio Giustinian, Bailo of Constantinople (1627), of particular interest due to the exceptional nature of the itinerary followed, which progressed into Macedonia and Serbia as far as Sofia and Belgrade and then turned towards Sarajevo, Mostar and reached Spalato. The document allows us to add an important element to the voyage reports between Venice and Constantinople, at the moment when the difficult relations between the Most Serene Republic and the Ottoman Empire seemed having found a new balance at the expense of the Republic of Ragusa. The unpublished Relazione is provided in the Appendix.
Annie Leigh Smith’s Algerian Palermo
2011
Palermo strana e meravigliosa. Lo sguardo inglese e la Golden Shell nella stampa periodica d'Ottocento
2013
Questo volume mette a fuoco le interconnessioni che durante il XIX secolo legano la scrittura odeporica inglese, la pubblicazione e la diffusione del periodico e la rappresentazione della città di Palermo. I resoconti di viaggio analizzati sono pubblicati su alcuni dei periodici britannici più popolari in un arco di tempo che va dal 1800 al 1900, periodo in cui la quasi totalità dei travelogue racconta un itinerario di cui Palermo rappresenta solamente una tappa e che prevedeva la visita dell’intera isola, iniziando e concludendo il percorso nella capitale, o Messina, e proseguendo l’itinerario passando per Alcamo, Calatafimi, Segesta, Erice, Enna, Calatnissetta, Canicattì, Girgenti (l’odie…
Travel and Disease in Thomas Mann’s "Death in Venice"
2019
Thomas Mann’s novella, Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig, 1912), presents a story of an artist, Gustav von Aschenbach, suffering from the writer’s block who travels to Venice to look for inspiration and where he eventually finds his death. In the meantime, he suffers from depression strengthened by feats of febrile listlessness, pressure in the temples, heaviness of the eyelids that make discontent befall him. The putrid smell of the lagoon hastens his departure, but a strange coincidence makes him change his mind. He returns to the hotel drawn by the enthrallment for the young lad, Tadzio, he had spotted there. Wandering through the streets of Venice, he ignores the health notices in 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 …
Inglesi di Sicilia
2012
narrativa di viaggio inglese in Sicilia
Optimal Transit Network Design
2019
In this chapter, the optimal transit network design is under investigation. A special kind of transport is assumed to be given the best traffic conditions in a road network (the smallest amount of travel time between origins and destinations). Optimality criteria for transit network design in case of selfish routing are defined in the first section. The Sect. 7.2 is devoted to the estimation of selfish traffic assignment in a network with a transit subnetwork. Optimality criteria for transit network design in case of competitive drivers’ groups routing are defined in the Sect. 7.3. The Sect. 7.4 is devoted to traffic assignment in case of competitive drivers’ groups routing in a network wit…
Direct Inversion of S ‐ P Differential Arrival Times for Ratio in SE Asia
2020
Harry Clifton’s On the Spine of Italy: A Year in the Abbruzzi: A Travel-Book or a Political Account?
2008
The article examines a text written by contemporary Irish writer Harry Clifton with a special focus on the peculiarities of its genre: is it a real travel account of his stay in Italy or some narrative written with the aim of reflecting upon Italy during the years of the fall of the Berlin wall, upon religion and Italian life?