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British Women's Travel to Greece, 1840-1914

Author : Churnjeet Mahn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317171284
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book British Women's Travel to Greece, 1840-1914 written by Churnjeet Mahn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the publication of the first Murray guidebook to Greece in 1840 and ending with Virginia Woolf's journey to Athens, this book offers a genealogy of British women's travel literature about Greece. Churnjeet Mahn recounts the women's first-hand experiences of the sites and sights of antiquity, analyzing travel accounts by archaeologists, ethnographers, journalists, and tourists to chart women's renderings of Modern Greece through a series of discursive lenses. Mahn's offers insights into the importance of the Murray and Baedeker guidebooks; how knowledge of Greece and Classical Studies were used to justify colonial rule of India at the same time that Agnes Smith Lewis and Jane Ellen Harrison used Greece as a symbol of women's emancipation; British women's production of the first anthropological accounts of Modern Greece; and fin-de-siècle women who asserted their right to see and claim antiquity at the same time that the safety of the independent lady traveler was being called into question by the media.

Palimpsest

Author : Catherynne Valente
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0553906291
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Palimpsest written by Catherynne Valente and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most secret fantasies begins with a stranger’s kiss.… Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse—a voyage permitted only to those who’ve always believed there’s another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers: Oleg, a New York locksmith; the beekeeper November; Ludovico, a binder of rare books; and a young Japanese woman named Sei. They’ve each lost something important—a wife, a lover, a sister, a direction in life—and what they will find in Palimpsest is more than they could ever imagine.

Travelling around Cultures

Author : Zsolt Győri
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443869333
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Travelling around Cultures written by Zsolt Győri and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture has always relied on art, just as artists have been dependent on culture as a problem field to draw inspiration from and as a store of social, ideological, and political practices to endorse or criticise. This volume addresses this dynamic reality by investigating how literary, cinematic, and artistic practices expose the often invisible structures and discourses which underlie the values, concepts, rites, and myths specific to Anglo-American cultural environments. On the one hand, the chapters (re-)visit classical, as well as contemporary, authors, including Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Janice Galloway and Matthew Kneale, through the lenses of culture, to explore how their works become social commentaries and a cultural diagnosis. On the other hand, they explore the politics and ideological effects of cultural practices exemplified by such matters as censorship, reading communities, fan fiction and travelogues.

The City in the Muslim World

Author : Mohammad Gharipour
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317548213
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The City in the Muslim World written by Mohammad Gharipour and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a critical, yet innovative, perspective on the cultural interactions between the "East" and the "West", this book questions the role of travel in the production of knowledge and in the construction of the idea of the "Islamic city". This volume brings together authors from various disciplines, questioning the role of Western travel writing in the production of knowledge about the East, particularly focusing on the cities of the Muslim world. Instead of concentrating on a specific era, chapters span the Medieval and Modern eras in order to present the transformation of both the idea of the "Islamic city" and also the act of traveling and travel writing. Missions to the East, whether initiated by military, religious, economic, scientific, diplomatic or touristic purposes, resulted in a continuous construction, de-construction and re-construction of the "self" and the "other". Including travel accounts, which depicted cities, extending from Europe to Asia and from Africa to Arabia, chapters epitomize the construction of the "Orient" via textual or visual representations. By examining various tools of representation such as drawings, paintings, cartography, and photography in depicting the urban landscape in constant flux, the book emphasizes the role of the mobile individual in defining city space and producing urban culture. Scrutinising the role of travellers in producing the image of the world we know today, this book is recommended for researchers, scholars and students of Middle Eastern Studies, Cultural Studies, Architecture and Urbanism.

Palimpsest

Author : Charles Stross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781596064218
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Palimpsest written by Charles Stross and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Stasis, the clandestine, near-omnipotent organization that stands at the heart of Charles Stross's Hugo Award-winning novella, Palimpsest. By mastering the mysteries of the Timegate, the Stasis has repeatedly steered mankind away from the brink of utter extinction. Through countless millennia, through the "mayfly flickerings" of innumerable transient civilizations, its members have intervened at critical junctions, reseeding the galaxy with viable potential survivors. In the process, they have reconfigured the basic structure of the universe, all in the name of human continuity. Pierce is a newly recruited member of the Stasis, serving out a complex twenty- year apprenticeship while struggling to find his way through the paradoxical maze of history (and unhistory) that surrounds him. As his once simple existence expands and replicates over vast stretches of time, Pierce uncovers a new and unexpected destiny, one that will embroil him in the larger purposes of the Stasis and in the ultimate, unresolved fate of humanity itself. Skillfully merging the threads of an individual life with the grandest, most overarching concerns, Palimpsest offers both visionary brilliance and narrative excitement in equal measure. Powerfully imagined, beautifully constructed, and written throughout with great economy of means, it is the kind of mind-expanding mini-epic that only science fiction and only a master practitioner like Charles Stross could produce.

The Palimpsest

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Palimpsest written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journeys in the Palimpsest

Author : Churnjeet Kaur Mahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Journeys in the Palimpsest written by Churnjeet Kaur Mahn and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gendered Palimpsest

Author : Kim Haines-Eitzen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195171292
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Gendered Palimpsest written by Kim Haines-Eitzen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a thorough treatment of the roles of women as authors, scribes, booklenders, and patrons of early Christian literature, and of the ways in which the representation of female figures was contested in the process of copying early Christian texts.

Driving Home

Author : Jonathan Raban
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307379914
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Driving Home written by Jonathan Raban and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2010 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Picador, 2010.

Travel Writing, Visual Culture, and Form, 1760-1900

Author : Brian H. Murray
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137543396
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Travel Writing, Visual Culture, and Form, 1760-1900 written by Brian H. Murray and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection reveals the variety of literary forms and visual media through which travel records were conveyed in the long nineteenth century, bringing together a group of leading researchers from a range of disciplines to explore the relationship between travel writing, visual representation and formal innovation.

Bulletin of Information Series

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of Information Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Revisiting Italy

Author : Rebecca Butler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000381625
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Revisiting Italy written by Rebecca Butler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the rise of mass tourism, Italy became increasingly accessible to Victorian women travellers not only as a locus of artistic culture but also as a site of political enquiry. Despite being outwardly denied a political voice in Britain, many female tourists were conspicuous in their commitment to the Italian campaign for national independence, or Risorgimento (1815–61). Revisiting Italy brings several previously unexamined travel accounts by women to light during a decisive period in this political campaign. Revealing the wider currency of the Risorgimento in British literature, Butler situates once-popular but now-marginalized writers: Clotilda Stisted, Janet Robertson, Mary Pasqualino, Selina Bunbury, Margaret Dunbar and Frances Minto Elliot alongside more prominent figures: the Shelley-Byron circle, the Brownings, Florence Nightingale and the Kemble sisters. Going beyond the travel book, she analyses a variety of forms of travel writing including unpublished letters, privately printed accounts and periodical serials. Revisiting Italy focuses on the convergence of political advocacy, gender ideologies, national identity and literary authority in women’s travel writing. Whether promoting nationalism through a maternal lens, politicizing the pilgrimage motif or reviving gothic representations of a revolutionary Italy, it identifies shared touristic discourses as temporally contingent, shaped by commercial pressures and the volatile political climate at home and abroad.

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317722841
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Bulletin of Information

Author : State Historical Society of Iowa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of Information written by State Historical Society of Iowa and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

Author : Roger D. Lund
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317722833
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels written by Roger D. Lund and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extremely complex, yet widely studied text, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels ranks as one of the most scathing satires of British and European society ever published. Students will therefore welcome the publication of Roger Lund’s sourcebook, which provides a clear way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surounds the text. This indispensable guide presents: extensive introductory comment on the contexts and many interpretations of the text, from publication to present annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itself cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Gudies to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Swift’s controversial novel.

Travelling in a Palimpsest

Author : Marie-Sofie Lundström
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789521218699
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Travelling in a Palimpsest written by Marie-Sofie Lundström and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing

Author : Miguel A. Cabañas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317585062
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing written by Miguel A. Cabañas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the intersections between the personal and the political in travel writing, and the dialectic between mobility and stasis, through an analysis of specific cases across geographical and historical boundaries. The authors explore the various ways in which travel texts represent actual political conditions and thus engage in discussions about national, transnational, and global citizenship; how they propose real-world political interventions in the places where the traveler goes; what tone they take toward political or socio-political violence; and how they intersect with political debates. Travel writing can be viewed as political in a purely instrumental sense, but, as this volume also demonstrates, travel writing’s reception and ideological interventions also transform personal and cultural realities. This book thus examines the ways in which politics’ material effects inform and intersect with personal experience in travel texts and engage with travel’s dialectic of mobility and stasis. In spite of globalization and efforts to eradicate the colonial vision in travel writing and in travel writing criticism, this vision persists in various and complex ways. While the travelogue can be a space of discursive and direct oppression, these essays suggest that the travelogue is also a narrative space in which the traveler employs the genre to assert authority over his or her experiences of mobility. This book will be an important contribution for interdisciplinary scholars with interests in travel writing studies, global and transnational studies, women’s studies, multicultural studies, the social sciences, and history.