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Travelling is the art of motion, motion results in moments of human encountering, and such moments manifest themselves in unsettling linguistic repercussions and crises of meaning. Places of arrival also function as inscriptions of such meaningful repercussions, inscriptions of the past crossing the present, of the other crossing the self. The contributions in this book explore places, rituals, texts and scriptures as religious or secular inscriptions – “topographies” – of such “arrivals.” Each arrival happens , and its very place manifests itself only as a momentous component of the process itself. Arrival is an event of conclusion as well as of urgency for subsequent explorations of new meanings to be read from the topography of the place, mirroring thus a signifying dynamic for the metamorphosis of the traveller’s self: “ topodynamic ” of arrival. In this vein this book investigates for the first time the dynamic of cultural formations of space, an aspect of spatiality which since the “spatial turn” in cultural discourse has mostly been neglected.

Travel in literature. --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature. --- Geography in literature. --- Topography in literature --- Voyages and travels in literature

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Research on pilgrimage has traditionally fallen across a series of academic disciplines - anthropology, archaeology, art history, geography, history and theology. To date, relatively little work has been devoted to the issue of pilgrimage as writing and specifically as a form of travel-writing. The aim of the interdisciplinary essays gathered here is to examine the relations of Christian pilgrimage to the numerous narratives, which it generates and upon which it depends. Authors reveal not only the tensions between oral and written accounts but also the frequent ambiguities of journeys - the possibilities of shifts between secular and sacred forms and accounts of travel. Above all, the papers reveal the self-generating and multiple-authored characteristics of pilgrimage narrative: stories of past pilgrimage experience generate future stories and even future journeys.

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature. --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Travel in literature. --- Travel writing --- History. --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature --- Travel in literature --- 248.153.8 --- 248.153.8 Bedevaarten. Pelgrimstochten--(algemeen) --- Bedevaarten. Pelgrimstochten--(algemeen) --- Voyages and travels in literature --- History

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David Wright's new translation of The Canterbury Tales into modern verse--the first to appear in over thirty years--makes one of the greatest works of English literature accessible to all readers while preserving the wit and vivacity of Chaucer's original text.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. Canterbury tales. --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature. --- Storytelling in literature. --- Tales, Medieval -- History and criticism. --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Christian --- Christian shrines --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages

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Paul Olson argues that Chaucer's narratives emerge from his deep concern about the crises of late fourteenth-century England and his vision of the renewal of that troubled society through the ideal of parlement, the various orders of society speaking together, and through a perfective religious discipline.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Social problems in literature. --- Literature and society --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature. --- History --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Political and social views. --- Chaucer (Geoffrey). Contes de Cantorbéry. --- Chaucer (Geoffrey). Canterbury Tales.

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The early modern era is often envisioned as one in which European genres, both narrative and visual, diverged indelibly from those of medieval times. This collection examines a disparate set of travel texts, dating from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, to question that divergence and to assess the modes, themes, and ethnologies of travel writing. It demonstrates the enduring nature of the itinerary, the variant forms of witnessing (including imaginary maps), the crafting of sacred space as a cautionary tale, and the use of the travel narrative to represent the transformation of the authorial self. Focusing on European travelers to the expansive East, from the soft architecture of Timur's tent palaces in Samarqand to the ambiguities of sexual identity at the Mughul court, these essays reveal the possibilities for cultural translation as travelers of varying experience and attitude confront remote and foreign (or not so foreign) space.

Europeans --- Travelers' writings, European --- Literary form --- Ethnology in literature. --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature. --- Intercultural communication in literature. --- Travel --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Themes, motives. --- Asia --- Description and travel. --- In literature.