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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.

Travel writing --- Travel --- Authorship --- History and criticism. --- Travelers' writings --- History --- History and criticism --- Travel writing - History --- Travelers' writings - History and criticism

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Cet ouvrage collectif, publié par le laboratoire de recherche CERCLE, vise à étudier, sur un vaste corpus franco-russe du XXe et du XXIe siècles, les présences et représentations des respectives langues autres, avant tout dans la fiction littéraire, mais aussi dans le genre "frictionnel" de la littérature de voyage. Les rapports culturels et littéraires entre la Russie et la France, aussi intenses que complexes, constituent un objet de choix pour une étude comparatiste. D'un point de vue français, la Russie fait traditionnellement fonction de l'un de ces "autres" co-constitutifs de sa propre identité : des discours sur la Russie (tsariste, soviétique, contemporaine), se dégage une image à l'envers de la France. Du côté russe, la France apparaît de même comme un "autre" privilégié : cas paradigmatique, donc, d'auto-/hétéro-images, de langues et de littératures croisées. Réunissant les contributions des chercheurs de plusieurs universités françaises et étrangères, ce volume explore surtout les pistes de réflexion suivantes : langue, littérature, identité ; écritures en exil, écritures de l'exil ; langue, littérature, idéologie ; théorie et imaginaire littéraire de l'(auto-)traduction et de l'(in-)traduisible ; stratégies textuelles à l'oeuvre dans la confrontation avec la langue de l'autre ainsi que le discours métalittéraire correspondant autant de facettes et de fragments divers d'un polylogue interculturel qui, en ce début du XXIe siècle, s'avère toujours fort vivant et varié.

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The contributions to this volume have been selected from the papers delivered at the 34th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies at Birmingham, in April 2000. Travellers to and in the Byzantine world have long been a subject of interest but travel and communications in the medieval period have more recently attracted scholarly attention. This book is the first to bring together these two lines of enquiry. Four aspects of travel in the Byzantine world, from the sixth to the fifteenth century, are examined here: technicalities of travel on land and sea, purposes of travel, foreign visitors' perceptions of Constantinople, and the representation of the travel experience in images and in written accounts. Sources used to illuminate these four aspects include descriptions of journeys, pilot books, bilingual word lists, shipwrecks, monastic documents, but as the opening paper shows the range of such sources can be far wider than generally supposed. The contributors highlight road and travel conditions for horses and humans, types of ships and speed of sea journeys, the nature of trade in the Mediterranean, the continuity of pilgrimage to the Holy Land, attitudes toward travel. Patterns of communication in the Mediterranean are revealed through distribution of ceramic finds, letter collections, and the spread of the plague. Together, these papers make a notable contribution to our understanding both of the evidence for travel, and of the realities and perceptions of communications in the Byzantine world. Travel in the Byzantine World is volume 10 in the series published by Ashgate/Variorum on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies.

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Thematology --- Regional documentation --- Greece --- Literary landmarks --- Travelers' writings --- Authors, Greek --- History and criticism --- Homes and haunts --- Description and travel --- In literature --- 82-992 --- 910.4 <495> --- -Travelers' writings --- -Travelers --- -Authors, Greek --- -Greek authors --- Travellers --- Voyagers --- Wayfarers --- Persons --- Voyages and travels --- Travelogues (Travelers' writings) --- Writings of travelers --- Literature --- Authors --- Landmarks, Literary --- Historic buildings --- Reisbeschrijvingen --- Ontdekkingsreizen. Reizen. Expedities. Reisverhalen----Griekenland --- History --- -Homes and haunts --- Description and travel. --- In literature. --- Description, geography --- -Reisbeschrijvingen --- -Greece --- 910.4 <495> Ontdekkingsreizen. Reizen. Expedities. Reisverhalen----Griekenland --- 82-992 Reisbeschrijvingen --- -82-992 Reisbeschrijvingen --- Greek authors --- Travelers --- Intellectual life. --- Literary landmarks - Greece --- Travelers' writings - History and criticism --- Authors, Greek - Homes and haunts - Greece --- Greece - Description and travel --- Greece - In literature

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"Critics have long struggled to find a suitable category for travelogues. From its ancient origins to the present day, the travel narrative has borrowed elements from various genres - from epic poetry to literary reportage - in order to evoke distant cultures and exotic locales, and sometimes those closer to hand. Tim Youngs argues in this lucid and detailed Introduction that travel writing redefines the myriad genres it comprises and is best understood on its own terms. To this end, Youngs surveys some of the most celebrated travel literature from the medieval period until the present, exploring themes such as the quest motif, the traveler's inner journey, postcolonial travel and issues of gender and sexuality. The text culminates in a chapter on twenty-first-century travel writing and offers predictions about future trends in the genre, making this Introduction an ideal guide for today's students, teachers and travel writing enthusiasts"-- "The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing is structured in three parts. The first surveys the development of the genre from ancient times to the present day. The second, with separate chapters on the quest motif, the inner journey, postcolonial travel, and gender and sexuality, shows how historical context and literary convention act on features that have long been present. The third part discusses recent critical approaches and considers these alongside travel writers' own statements about their practice. The final chapter looks at current travel writing, including the impact of the internet, and anticipates future trends. The volume shows that travel writing has a long tradition, is more diverse than is often recognised, constitutes a serious literary genre, and, contrary to the assumptions of much recent work, can offer a radical challenge to dominant values and perspectives"--

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