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Travel and Imagination

Author : Garth Lean
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317006615
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Travel and Imagination written by Garth Lean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The imagination has long been associated with travel and tourism; from the seventeenth century when the showman and his peepshow box would take the village crowd to places, cities and lands through the power of stories, to today when we rely on a different range of boxes to whisk us away on our imaginative travels: the television, the cinema and the computer. Even simply the notion of travel, it would seem, gives us license to daydream. The imagination thus becomes a key concept that blurs the boundaries between our everyday lives and the idea of travel. Yet, despite what appears to be a close and comfortable link, there is an absence of scholarly material looking at travel and the imagination. Bringing together geographers, sociologists, cultural researchers, philosophers, anthropologists, visual researchers, archaeologists, heritage researchers, literary scholars and creative writers, this edited collection explores the socio-cultural phenomenon of imagination and travel. The volume reflects upon imagination in the context of many forms of physical and non-physical travel, inviting scholars to explore this fascinating, yet complex, area of inquiry in all of its wonderful colour, slipperiness, mystery and intrigue. The book intends to provide a catalyst for thinking, discussion, research and writing, with the vision of generating a cannon of scholarship on travel and the imagination that is currently absent from the literature.

Standard English

Author : Barry Spurr
Publisher : Pascal Press
ISBN 13 : 9781741250688
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Standard English written by Barry Spurr and published by Pascal Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Meaningful Journeys

Author : Alec Grant
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040015271
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Meaningful Journeys written by Alec Grant and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meaningful Journeys is an edited collection of autoethnographies underpinned by the conceptual, philosophical, and etymological origins of ‘journeying,’ ‘questing,’ and traditional and modern understandings of ‘pilgrimage.’ The volume contains chapters on the ways in which all these concepts intersect with identity and identity transformation. These range across narratives of sport; adventure; preferred identity; curative religion; revered location; nostalgia; grief resolution; ‘out of suitcase’ travels; and pilgrimage journeys understood in more traditional senses. The collection showcases and promotes the identity transformational quest as an important conceptual nuance of narrative autoethnography. Readers will engage with the ways in which contributing authors craft their emerging selves into preferred identities, which showcase personal and relational change in action. This book is essential reading for students and practitioners of autoethnography and qualitative research internationally and others interested in identity transformation in narrative inquiry.

Knowledge and Knowers

Author : Karl Maton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134019637
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge and Knowers written by Karl Maton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in ‘knowledge societies’ and work in ‘knowledge economies’, but accounts of social change treat knowledge as homogeneous and neutral. While knowledge should be central to educational research, it focuses on processes of knowing and condemns studies of knowledge as essentialist. This book unfolds a sophisticated theoretical framework for analysing knowledge practices: Legitimation Code Theory or ‘LCT’. By extending and integrating the influential approaches of Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein, LCT offers a practical means for overcoming knowledge-blindness without succumbing to essentialism or relativism. Through detailed studies of pressing issues in education, the book sets out the multi-dimensional conceptual toolkit of LCT and shows how it can be used in research. Chapters introduce concepts by exploring topics across the disciplinary and institutional maps of education: -how to enable cumulative learning at school and university -the unfounded popularity of ‘student-centred learning’ and constructivism -the rise and demise of British cultural studies in higher education -the positive role of canons -proclaimed ‘revolutions’ in social science -the ‘two cultures’ debate between science and humanities -how to build cumulative knowledge in research -the unpopularity of school Music -how current debates in economics and physics are creating major schisms in those fields. LCT is a rapidly growing approach to the study of education, knowledge and practice, and this landmark book is the first to systematically set out key aspects of this theory. It offers an explanatory framework for empirical research, applicable to a wide range of practices and social fields, and will be essential reading for all serious students and scholars of education and sociology.

Errant Journeys

Author : David Zurick
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786565
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Errant Journeys written by David Zurick and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism is becoming one of the world's most important economic activities. There is hardly a place on earth, no matter how inaccessible, that has not been visited by some traveler seeking adventure, enlightenment, or simply change from the familiar world back home. In this pathfinding book, David Zurick explores the fastest-growing segment of the travel industry—adventure travel. He raises important questions about what constitutes the travel experience and shows how the modern adventure industry has commercialized the very notion of adventure by packaging it as tours. Drawing on two decades of personal travel, as well as the writings of others, Zurick unravels the paradox of adventure travel—that the very act of visiting remote places untouched by Western culture introduces that culture and begins irreversible changes. This first in-depth look at adventure travel opens new insights into the physical, philosophical, and spiritual attributes of the travel experience. Written in a lively style, the book is intended for everyone interested in travel and its effects on both travelers and the people and places they visit.

Imaginative Mapping

Author : Nobuko Toyosawa
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684176018
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Imaginative Mapping written by Nobuko Toyosawa and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape has always played a vital role in shaping Japan’s cultural identity. Imaginative Mapping analyzes how intellectuals of the Tokugawa and Meiji eras used specific features and aspects of the landscape to represent their idea of Japan and produce a narrative of Japan as a cultural community. These scholars saw landscapes as repositories of local history and identity, stressing Japan’s differences from the models of China and the West. By detailing the continuities and ruptures between a sense of shared cultural community that emerged in the seventeenth century and the modern nation state of the late nineteenth century, this study sheds new light on the significance of early modernity, one defined not by temporal order but rather by spatial diffusion of the concept of Japan. More precisely, Nobuko Toyosawa argues that the circulation of guidebooks and other spatial narratives not only promoted further movement but also contributed to the formation of subjectivity by allowing readers to imagine the broader conceptual space of Japan. The recurring claims to the landscape are evidence that it was the medium for the construction of Japan as a unified cultural body.

Bedtime Tales : Journeys Through Alternate Realms

Author : N.B. Singh
Publisher : N.B. Singh
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bedtime Tales : Journeys Through Alternate Realms written by N.B. Singh and published by N.B. Singh. This book was released on with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bedtime Tales: Journeys Through Alternate Realms" invites readers on a captivating voyage through fantastical realms and enchanting narratives, perfect for bedtime or anytime storytelling. This collection of tales offers a kaleidoscope of diverse worlds, each brimming with magic, adventure, and mystery. From mythical creatures to heroic quests, and from ancient civilizations to futuristic landscapes, these stories transport readers to alternate realities where imagination knows no bounds. With vivid storytelling and rich imagery, "Bedtime Tales" sparks curiosity, ignites the imagination, and leaves readers eagerly anticipating the next journey into the unknown.

Novel Science

Author : Adelene Buckland
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226079686
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Novel Science written by Adelene Buckland and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel Science is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the “heroic age” of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men, literature was an essential part of the practice of science itself, as important to their efforts as mapmaking, fieldwork, and observation. The reading and writing of imaginative literatures helped them to discover, imagine, debate, and give shape and meaning to millions of years of previously undiscovered earth history. Borrowing from the historical fictions of Walter Scott and the poetry of Lord Byron, they invented geology as a science, discovered many of the creatures we now call the dinosaurs, and were the first to unravel and map the sequence and structure of stratified rock. As Adelene Buckland shows, they did this by rejecting the grand narratives of older theories of the earth or of biblical cosmogony: theirs would be a humble science, faithfully recording minute details and leaving the big picture for future generations to paint. Buckland also reveals how these scientists—just as they had drawn inspiration from their literary predecessors—gave Victorian realist novelists such as George Eliot, Charles Kingsley, and Charles Dickens a powerful language with which to create dark and disturbing ruptures in the too-seductive sweep of story.

Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Author : Christoph Reinfandt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110393360
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries written by Christoph Reinfandt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook systematically charts the trajectory of the English novel from its emergence as the foremost literary genre in the early twentieth century to its early twenty-first century status of eccentric eminence in new media environments. Systematic chapters address ̒The English Novel as a Distinctly Modern Genreʼ, ̒The Novel in the Economy’, ̒Genres’, ̒Gender’ (performativity, masculinities, feminism, queer), and ̒The Burden of Representationʼ (class and ethnicity). Extended contextualized close readings of more than twenty key texts from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) to Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island (2015) supplement the systematic approach and encourage future research by providing overviews of reception and theoretical perspectives.

Mirror of the World

Author : Meg Roland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000415791
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Mirror of the World written by Meg Roland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late fifteenth century, the production of print editions of Claudius Ptolemy’s second-century Geography sparked one of the most significant intellectual developments of the era—the production of mathematically-based, north-oriented maps. The production of world maps in England, however, was notably absent during this "Ptolemaic revival." As a result, the impact of Ptolemy’s text on English geographical thought has been obscured and minimalized, with scholars speculating a possible English indifference to or isolation from European geographic developments. Tracing English geographical thought through the material culture of literary and popular texts, this study provides evidence for the reception and transmission of Ptolemaic-based geography in England during a critical period of geographic innovation and synthesis, one that laid the foundation for modern geographical representation. With evidence from prose romance, book illustration, theatrical performance, cosmological ceilings, and almanacs, Mirror of the World proposes a new, interdisciplinary literary and cartographic history of the influence of Ptolemaic geography in England, one that reveals the lively integration of geographic concepts through narrative and non-cartographic visual forms.

Writing and Fantasy

Author : Ceri Sullivan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317883780
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Writing and Fantasy written by Ceri Sullivan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing and Fantasy brings together essays which restore a sense of the fantastic as a political response to cultural opportunities and pressures. It moves on from two conventional fields of discussion: the psychoanalytic, where phantasies are produced by the emergence of the consciousness, and the social, where fantasies are the production of nineteenth-century individualism. Chapters run from the classical period to the twentieth century, each focusing on a local reading of how fantasy acts as a strategy to contain or exploit specific historical and cultural moments. A wide variety of sites are investigated including the feminization of the wild west, originary and maternal spaces, highwaywomen, financial credit, and the ideal home. Multiple genres containing fantasy are explored, ranging from ghost stories to feminist utopias. Aids to the reader include an introduction summarising recent discussions of fantasy, illustrations dealing with visual fantasies, and an annotated bibliography. The new research presented here will be of great interest to academics and students in literature, history and cultural studies departments who are working in the field of the historical development of concepts of fantasy, cultural opposition, and the imbrication of politics and modes of representation.

The Artist's Journey

Author : Nancy Hillis
Publisher : Artist's Journey Press
ISBN 13 : 9780999750438
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Artist's Journey written by Nancy Hillis and published by Artist's Journey Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you yearn to say yes to your deepest expression in your art and life, this self-help book is for you. Dr. Hillis guides you past resistance on your artist's journey so you can finally trust yourself, develop confidence and cultivate deep exploration and experimentation in your art. Bonus resource library with videos lessons and book club guide.

Swarnalata

Author : Tilottoma Misra
Publisher : Zubaan
ISBN 13 : 9383074388
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Swarnalata written by Tilottoma Misra and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in mid-nineteenth century Assam when the forces of tradition were being challenged by new concepts of modernity, Swarnalata is the story of three women from very different social backgrounds each caught in the whirlpool of change, each trying to chart out her own course in life heroically, silently. As the intertwined lives of Swarnalata, Tora and Lakhi unfold, the reader is taken on a fascinating journey into the social milieu of the times where issues like women’s education and widow remarriage held centre stage. The plight of indentured labour, peasant resistance against colonial exploitation, the reformist initiatives of the Brahmo Samaj and the proselytizing efforts of the Christian missionaries are themes that run throughout the narrative. Real historical personages—such as Rabindranath Tagore—are presented side by side with fictional characers, resulting in a wonderful blend of history and fiction. Swarnalata was first published in Asomiya in 1991. It was awarded the Ishan Puraskar by the Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad in 1995 and translated into Bangla and Hindi under the ‘Adaan-Pradaan’ programme of the National Book Trust. The Asomiya original is now in its fourth edition and has received wide critical acclaim in the last 15 years. Published by Zubaan.

Poetry of Reality

Author : Katherine Norman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135304300
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Poetry of Reality written by Katherine Norman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Lifestyle Mobilities

Author : Dr Scott A Cohen
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472407059
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Lifestyle Mobilities written by Dr Scott A Cohen and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being mobile in today's world is influenced by many aspects including transnational ties, increased ease of access to transport, growing accessibility to technology, knowledge and information and changing socio-cultural outlooks and values. These factors can all engender a (re)formation of our everyday life and moving - as and for lifestyle - has, in many ways, become both easier and much more complex. This book highlights the crossroads between concepts of lifestyle and the growing body of work on 'mobilities'. The study of lifestyle offers a lens through which to study the kinds of moorings, dwellings, repetitions and routines around which mobilities become socially, culturally and politically meaningful. Bringing together scholars from geography, sociology, tourism, history and beyond, the authors illustrate the breadth and richness of mobilities research through the concept of lifestyle. Organised into four sections, the book begins by dealing with aspects of bodily performance through lifestyle mobility. Section two then looks at how we can use mobile methods within social research, whilst section three explores issues surrounding ideas of mobility, immobility and belonging. Finally, section four draws together a number of chapters that focus on the complexities of identity within mobility. Often drawing on ethnographic research, contributors all share one common feature: they are at the forefront of research into lifestyle mobilities.

Stories to Light the Night

Author : Susan Perrow
Publisher : Hawthorn Press
ISBN 13 : 1912480484
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Stories to Light the Night written by Susan Perrow and published by Hawthorn Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 90 healing stories for telling during difficult times, written and collated by acclaimed therapeutic storyteller Susan Perrow, including 30 contributions from different cultures and countries worldwide. The book covers issues of grief, bereavement, separation, and loss. Chapters include: Loss of a Loved One; Loss of Place; Loss of Family Connection; Loss of a Pet; Loss of Health and Well-being; Other Kinds of Loss; Environmental Grief and Loss; Cycles of Life and Change; plus Patterns and Templates for Extension Activities (provided for some of the stories).

The Magic of Everyday Life The Fascinating Application of Hermetic Principles A Deeper Look Beyond the Known

Author : Sophia Elisabeth Blackwood
Publisher : Jurij Statjow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magic of Everyday Life The Fascinating Application of Hermetic Principles A Deeper Look Beyond the Known written by Sophia Elisabeth Blackwood and published by Jurij Statjow. This book was released on 2023-06-18 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the mystical mystery of everyday life! Immerse yourself in a world full of fascinating magic and experience a deeper contemplation beyond the known. My book "The Magic of Everyday Life: The Fascinating Application of Hermetic Principles" reveals hidden mysteries that will lift your life to a whole new level. What awaits you in the mysterious pages of this book? Here are some magical highlights: The creative power of the mind: enter the world of thoughts and affirmations and use them to shape your reality and make your desires come true. The hidden connections in the universe: discover the mysterious threads of synchronicities, cosmic patterns and reflections that guide and connect your life. The power of vibration: Immerse yourself in the magical world of energy and frequencies to enhance your well-being and resonate in harmony. The interplay of opposites: Master the fascinating play of polarities and create a magical evolution of yourself through the balance of positive and negative energy. The cyclical patterns of life: Listen to the mysterious rhythm of natural cycles and seasons and use timing and patience as the key to your destiny. The consequences of our actions: Recognise the magical power that lies in your thoughts, words and actions and consciously create positive causes for amazing effects. The union of masculine and feminine: Explore the mystical interplay of your inner polarities and harness the magical energies of masculine and feminine for creativity and balance. Hermetic Meditation Techniques: Delve into the mysterious alchemy of thought and learn to transmute negative thought patterns and expand your consciousness. Hermetic Lightwork: Experience the magical purification and strengthening of your energy field, activate your chakras and let the energy and aura unfold their true magic. Hermetic Principles in the Modern World: Experience the fascinating applications and practical use of symbols, rituals and magical wisdom in your daily life. This book is not only a guide to the fascinating world of Hermeticism, but also a magical key that offers you concrete instructions and exercises to integrate the mysterious magic into your everyday life. Let yourself be enchanted by the powers of Hermetics and experience a deeper connection to yourself and the unseen worlds around us. Don't wait any longer! Immerse yourself in the mystical magic of everyday life and order this book now. Open the gates to a mysterious new world full of possibilities and let your magical journey into the depths of everyday magic begin!