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_The Physiology of Love and Other Writings_ is the first English annotated collection of Mantegazza’s selected works. In my extensive introductory essay, Mantegazza’s hybrid contributions from fiction, travel-writing, and ethnography to... more
Strident criticism since publication has failed to dampen enthusiasm for Bruce Chatwin’s The songlines (1987), which a quarter century later remains popular among visitors to Central Australia and those interested in Aboriginal culture.... more
As the first cultural history of the sea in medieval English literature, this book traces premodern myths of insularity from their Old English beginnings to Shakespeare's Tempest. Beginning with a discussion of biblical, classical and... more
Different forms of selfhood enacted in the TV and filmic endings of the anime Evangelion can be revealed by building on Donald Crafton’s typology of performance of/in animation of “embodied acting” and “figurative acting.” Embodied acting... more
Local and imperial, insular and expansive, both English yet British: geographically and culturally, the sea continues to shape changing models of Englishness. This volume traces the many literary origins of insular identity from local... more
Resumen La ecocrítica es aún una escuela de crítica reciente y poco extendida entre los estudios literarios de América Latina y España. Dentro de su alcance, las investigaciones sobre la ecopoesía hispánica contemporánea apenas suman 55... more
John Moore was a prolific and popular nature writer and radio presenter in England in the 20th Century. His nature writing spanned a period of tremendous change in the countryside and how it was viewed both by authority and the general... more
Dos suizos, dos libros, una única obsesión: la explotación del “oro negro” de la selva amazónica, en la época del auge cauchero en el Oriente de Bolivia. Con apenas unos meses de diferencia, Franz Ritz y Ernst Leutenegger trabajaron en la... more
The Interdisciplinary Rhetoric of Ecocriticism and the Reinterpretation of The Tisza by Sándor Petőfi. Ecocriticism is a new trend in the humanities which allows the interdisciplinary approach of literature involving not only sibling... more
Over the last decade, ecocriticism – broadly defined, the study of the relationship between language or art and the physical environment1 – has come to the fore in China, particularly in humanities departments, leading to an outpouring of... more
Après une brève comparaison entre l'écocritique américaine (Glotfelty et Fromm, Buell) et l'écocritique française (Stéphanie Posthumus, Alain Suberchicot), cette communication a pour but d'explorer les plus récents travaux sur le paysage... more
Ιστορική εποπτεία και ειδολογική τυπολογία της ταξιδιωτικής γραμματείας του 18ου αι. για την Οθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία.
Julio C. Tello, a Peruvian archaeologist, ascertained that the valuable environmental knowledge gained by Peru's pre-Hispanic civilisations equally had contemporary significance for a modernising and industrialising nation. This article... more
Caves are explored in three different perspectives: recreation, biology, and meaning. In 2007 the European introduced White-Nose Syndrome started it's rampage on hibernating bat species in North America. In 2009 John Jones tragically dies... more
Labelled as the “novel of denunciation” since the early twentieth century, Liu E’s The Travels of Lao Can is famous for its condemnation of “uncorrupted officials,” or qingguan, who did not tolerate bribery but who, nevertheless, pursued... more
Black Hole’s horrific elements combined with the metonymic capabilities of the comics format and Charles Burns’ unique drawing style allow Burns to portray the ecological in Black Hole without reducing it into anthropocentric metaphors.... more
Anthology with short stories and catalog numbers by the Swiss author Peter K. Wehrli (1939) in English translation. Made with the assistance of the following students: Anna Carlsson, Ann Huang, Adam Nunes and Kevin Russell.
Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 11.1 & 2 (January 2010): 87-112.
Published in Guatemala in 1938, Romelia Alarcón de Folgar’s poetry collection, Llamaradas, features a poetic voice who takes the form of a tree, ostensibly the ceiba, or Maya World Tree. Marrying images both from Maya tradition and... more
A meditative contribution to the literature on Rumi/Mevlana, city of Konya, the gendered concept of flâneur and flâneuse, the revival of "quest after knowledge" known as rihla fi talab al-‘ilm as part of contemporary travel literature in... more
In the climate of early nineteenth-century negotiation over Anglo-American cultural relations, pleasure acquires added significance in Washington Irving's whimsical and touristic assortment of short stories and accounts of people, places... more
Du croquis à la peinture à l’huile, restées à l’état original ou diffusées par l’intermédiaire de la gravure, seules ou en conjonction avec le récit viatique, les images du voyage en Orient véhiculent une image riche en contrastes et... more
Scots were among the most widely-traveled people in eighteenth-century Britain, often recording their experiences of cross-cultural contact in their public and personal writing. The chapter will provide a detailed examination of the... more
Colloque international Récits de voyage et ecritures de soi enAfrique coloniale et postcoloniale : cheminement individuel et formation d’une conscience sociale et politique nationale, Université Omar Bongo, 27-29 novembre 2018, org.... more
In the framework of contemporary ecocritical and posthumanist theories, this comparative analysis of works by Paolo Mantegazza, Ouida, and Vernon Lee focuses on the conflictual relationship of proximity and differentiation at stake in the... more
Abstract for a paper that was supposed to be delivered at the 25th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS), 24th-27th July, 2018, Paris, FRANCE. Short paper abstract: One of South Asia's lesser-known (despite his phenomenal... more
NETWORK ON TRAVEL WRITING TO THE ROMANTIC FAR NORTH 1800-1900 The focus is on how the Romantic North was rediscovered though Romantic historicism, Antiquarianism and travelling European “men of science and letters” 1800-1900. Furthermore,... more
The presentation traces the recent establishment and development of the Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES). Having arisen initially out of the kindred, though largely distinct, scholarly discourses of... more
This paper investigates Oroko Ideology as a thought system that is based on the unity of all things in the universe, prompting all that exists to exist. It seeks to establish a clear deviation where necessary from European or Western... more
The essays gathered in In Transit focus on issues arising from the historical nexus between travel and imperialism. Contributors investigate the ways in which specific imperial projects were inextricably linked to developments in travel... more
This article links Jungian literary criticism on archetypes with contemporary postcolonial theories on colonial discourse in travel writing (David Spurr) and the worlding of a colonized land (Gayatri Spivak) in order to understand the... more
This article considers the paintings of the contemporary American artist Josh Keyes from an ecocritical point of view and discusses the importance of biocentrism and the affinity between humans and nature in the artist’s work.
Alle teorie che si sono mosse da una critica delle visioni essenzialiste della letteratura e della realtà, l’uso discorsivo del termine “natura” è apparso uno dei bersagli critici più urgenti. In quanto mezzo privilegiato di... more
This article analyses the forms in which women have represented their displacements through diverse territories using the crónica genre, even when the travel as theme is not necessarily the narrative focus. The cases studied here are not... more
How can film become a tool of ‘conservation of remembrance’ and be a part of rescuing and rebuilding of cultural and communal memories? Taking a cue from recent ecologically oriented debate on modernity, this paper will focus on memories... more