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In its attention to the 'keywords of travel', Keywords for Travel Writing Studies' takes into account the established status of studies in travel writing and the field's significance for an audience beyond the academy. It responds to what might be described as the 'mobility turn' in the arts and humanities over the past two decades. Each entry in the volume is around 1,000 words, and the style is more essayistic than encyclopaedic, with contributors providing a reflection on their chosen keyword from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The emphasis on travelogues and other cultural representations of mobility drawn from a range of national and linguistic traditions ensures that the volume has a comparative dimension; the aim is to give an overview of each term in its historical and theoretical complexity, providing readers with a clear sense of how the selected words are essential to a critical understanding of travel writing. Each entry is complemented by an annotated bibliography of five essential items suggesting further reading.

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This book revisits images of the Balkans in twentieth-century travel writing that vividly mirrors the turbulent changes that the region went through. As such, it provides a vital basis for research into the variety of possibilities, or obstacles, present on the region's path to accession, when its unique heritage will have to be reconciled with a more European identity. This volume explores the work of well-known authors, such as Rebecca West, Paul Theroux, Robert D. Kaplan, and also contributes to travel writing theory by addressing less-known travellers who recorded their thoughts on the soc

Travel writing. --- Travel writing --- Travel --- Authorship --- History and criticism. --- Balkan Peninsula --- Balkan States --- Balkans --- Europe, Southeastern --- Southeastern Europe --- In literature.

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Mobility at Large explores a unique trajectory of travel writing. Instead of focussing on best-selling travel texts by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Alain de Botton and others, this book examines a strand of innovative contemporary travel writing wherein the authors experiment with form, content and the politics of representation. In this, innovative travel texts by a range of writers – from Michael Ondaatje and Caryl Phillips to Daphne Marlatt and Sam Miller – transform the genre by inscribing travel, migration, mobility and displacement within a variety of experimental textual strategies to work through questions of movement and the politics of personal identity in relation to the complex interlocutions of space, place and subjectivity. As a result, Mobility at Large challenges those critics who dismiss the genre as inherently conservative and inextricably bound up in a colonial, Eurocentric tradition. The book also documents a long and rich tradition of travel writing that existed well beyond the influence of Europe.

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"Examining a broad range of texts and travellers from across the world, the contributors discuss canonical authors such as Homer, Goethe, and Baudelaire, alongside lesser known writers such as Theodor Herzl, Hans Erich Nossack, and William Gibson. This theoretically rich volume draws connections between travel and narrative, and provides powerful insights into the relationship between travel and the spoken act of storytelling, as well as the more ambivalent act of story writing."--Jacket.

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De auteur van dit werk neemt je mee op een trip langs vijf smart-city-bestemmingen in Europa die hem tijdens verschillende bezoeken de afgelopen jaren sterk geboeid hebben. Hij toont hoe de steden het elk op hun manier hebben aangepakt, omdat deze plaatsen ook jou en jouw stad kunnen inspireren en veranderen. Geen van deze steden is de ultieme, of meest complete slimme stad. De ultieme slimme stad bestaat waarschijnlijk niet, maar de voorbeelden in dit boekje hebben wel allemaal een erg interessante invalshoek. Dit boekje wil een bron van ideeën zijn, maar het heeft ook de ambitie om je écht tot reizen aan te zetten. Smart-city-toerisme is booming business. Steeds meer beleidsmensen, bedrijfsleiders, creatievelingen en onderzoekers gaan op studietrip naar de toonaangevende smart cities. Een smart city moet je nu eenmaal zien om te weten of het werkt. Maar ook niet-specialisten kunnen hier wat aan hebben. Mensen reizen niet meer enkel naar New York of Amsterdam om er een lijstje bezienswaardigheden af te werken. Ze willen een stad ervaren die duurzaam, menselijk, sociaal, dynamisch, avontuurlijk en verbluffend is: allemaal eigenschappen van een geslaagde smart city. Misschien willen ze zich ook laven aan het gevoel dat zo?n slimme stad ook hun leven kan veranderen. Het doet hen dromen over wat de toekomst van hun eigen stad zou kunnen zijn.Bron: http://www.politeia.be/nl-be/book/5-x-smart-cities-een-reisgids-naar-de-slimme-stad-vub/15862.htm

Toerisme ; steden. --- Travel writing --- Stadsvernieuwing --- Steden --- Stadssamenleving --- Innovatie --- Duurzaamheid --- Kopenhagen --- Londen --- Rotterdam --- Barcelona --- Messina --- Stad