Travel, Discovery, Transformation: Culture & Civilization

ISBN-13: 9781138539891 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 350 str.

Gabriel R. Ricci

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This latest volume in the Culture & Civilization series gathers interdisciplinary voices to present a collection of essays on travel and travel narratives

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Introduction - Gabriel R. Ricci

I The Allure of Ancient Greece
1. "More Like Odysseus": Playing House in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient - Carol Dougherty
2. "If Peopled and Cultured": Bartram's Travels and the Odyssey - Jonathan Burgess
3. Commodifying Antiquity in Mary Nisbet's Journey to the Ottoman Empire - Efterpi Mitsi
4. The Journey to Greece in the American and the Greek Modernist Literary Imagination: Henry Miller and George Seferis - Nektaria G. Klapaki

II Women's Voices
5. A Protestant in Foreign Catholic and Muslim Spaces: The Turkish Embassy Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Precious McKenzie
6. Frameworks of Freedom and Fear: Authorizing the Voice in Women's Travel Writing -
Patricia Claudette Johnson
7. Self-Transformation through Dangerous Travel: Mary Morris's Nothing to Declare and Audrey Schulman's The Cage - Aeron Haynie
8. "That Wonderous Medusa-Face": Goethe's Italian Journey, George Eliot, and G. H. Lewes -
Lila Marz Harper

III Traveling with God
9. The Literary Culture of Missionary Travel - Brian Yothers
10. On the Road to Health: Pilgrimage in Medieval England - John Theilmann

IV New Worlds
11. Culture, the Caribbean Landscape, and Environmental Change - Jeff Dillman
12. "A Scale of Hideousness": Snakes and Other Reptiles in the New Worlds of the Long Eighteenth Century - Katherine Turner
13. Bitter Laughter and Colonial Novellistica in Galeotto Cei's Relazione delle Indie - Nathalie Hester

V Modern Journeys
14. Pneumo Prose: National Socialism as a Helvetic Disease - Oliver Lubrich
15. Plato's Parable of the Cave and the Transformative Power of Travel in Mediterranean Cinema - Taso Lagos
16. Ryszard Kapuscinski's Polyphonic Travels - Casey Blanton

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Gabriel R. Ricci