Travel Literature

Volume 1 : La Breve e Succinta Relatione del Viaggio nel Regno di Congo […] du prêtre capucin Girolamo Merolla da Sorrento, publiée en 1692, est un compte rendu d’une mission d’évangélisation accomplie dans des territoires peu explorés à l’époque comme le Royaume de Kongo, l’Angola et d’autres territoires environnants. La densité des sujets traités dans cet ouvrage et l’opacité de la langue et du style ont nécessité un travail d’édition critique afin de déblayer le terrain, pour un texte qui jusqu’à présent était demeuré presque inconnu et avait été mis en perspective de façon trop succincte. Cette tâche est précisément l’objet du volume 1.

Volume 1: Published in 1692, Breve e Succinta Relatione del Viaggio nel Regno di Congo […] by the Capuchin priest Girolamo Merolla da Sorrento is an account about a mission of evangelization that took place on the Kingdom of Kongo, Angola and other surrounding areas, which were almost unexplored during that time. The density of the topics the book deals with, as well as its linguistic and stylistic opacity required a philological and historical assessment to prepare the way to understand its content, which have remained almost unknown or succinctly analysed until today. Take into consideration the mentioned aspects, a critical edition will be the task of this first volume.

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Le roman du voyage (dir.), « Romanesques », Hors-série n°7, 2015, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 248 p. ISBN: 978-2-8124-6010-4
Raconter/voyager : cette articulation guide la redécouverte du roman grec par la Renaissance européenne. Elle accompagne également les principales mutations de la forme romanesque, des sorties de Don Quichotte dans les plaines de la Mancha aux pérégrinations de Jacques le Fataliste et de son maître, et du tour du monde de Philéas Fogg aux espaces explorés au siècle dernier par le roman d’anticipation ; on la retrouve enfin à l’ère de la littérature mondialisée dans l’œuvre de Le Clézio, saluée en 2005 par l’attribution d’un prix Nobel significatif à cet égard. C’est dire qu’elle survit d’un côté à l’ère du soupçon et aux remises en cause des fondements de la narration romanesque qui l’ont accompagnée à partir des années 1950, et de l’autre au déclin du récit de voyage lui-même comme forme signifiante, dans un environnement post-moderne désormais entièrement exploré, et dans lequel une écriture de l’expérience doit trouver d’autres objets que la découverte de terres ou même d’espaces nouveaux.
Dans cette longévité, on peut voir l’indice de la solidité et surtout de la richesse esthétique d’un lien qui assure depuis deux millénaires non pas la continuité générique de la forme romanesque — au contraire, l’importance prise par le voyage dans un récit menace bien souvent son rattachement au genre, en particulier dans un contexte réaliste — mais plutôt la capacité du roman à se renouveler.
Les treize articles rassemblés par Anne Duprat dans ce numéro de Romanesques consacré au « Roman du voyage » explorent quelques-unes des formes qu’ont pu prendre au fil des siècles cette liberté, et cette assurance que la narration romanesque doit à sa dimension viatique.

Nous tenterons donc ici, sans prétention à l’exhaustivité, de montrer en quoi les voyageurs sont des comparatistes par nature, comment cela se transmet dans les relations qui émergent de leurs déplacements, et en quoi il est impératif d’utiliser une méthode comparative pour l’étude de leurs écrits.

I – De l’expérience à l’écriture du voyage : « donner à
comparer »

II – Les figures de l’analogie : clefs de la relation de voyage

III – La méthode comparative : une évidence ?

Pour citer cet article : FILET Jérémy, « Vers un comparatisme des écrits du déplacement ? Littérature et voyageurs comparatistes », Cahiers Tocqueville des Jeunes Chercheurs, Vol. 2, n°1, avril 2020, p. 21-28.

Il testo del Devisement dou monde (o Milione, secondo la tradizione italiana) trasmesso dal codice parigino fr. 1116 rappresenta la forma linguisticamente più vicina alla superficie discorsiva originale dell’opera poliana. Dopo l’edizione del 2010 Mario Eusebi ne ha rivisto la lezione: il frutto di tale revisione (già disponibile al lettore nell’edizione digitale di Dei viaggi di Messer Marco Polo di Giovanni Battista Ramusio, in questa collana, vol. 5) torna alla tradizionale forma-libro, accompagnato dal glossario integrale e dagli indici dei nomi e dei toponimi, curati da Eugenio Burgio.

After the 2010 edition (Il manoscritto della Bibliothèque Nationale de France fr. 1116, Rome-Padua: Editrice Antenore), Mario Eusebi reviewed the text of the Franco-Venetian redaction (F) of the Devisement dou monde (in collaboration with Eugenio Burgio and Samuela Simion). The result of this revision has long been available to the reader in the digital edition of Giovanni Battista Ramusio’s Dei viaggi di Messer Marco Polo (Simion, Burgio 2015): here the text goes back to the traditional book-form; the second volume, already promised in the subtitle of the 2010 edition, is dedicated to the full glossary and indexes (names and toponyms), edited by Eugenio Burgio (with a linguistic note by Mario Eusebi).

Thèse de littérature générale et comparée, sous la direction du Professeur Guy Ducrey Université de Strasbourg École doctorale des humanités (ED 520) Configurations littéraires (EA 1337) Soutenue le 28 novembre 2014 à l'Université de Strasbourg Composition du jury M. Guy DUCREY (directeur de thèse) -Professeur, Université de Strasbourg Mme Florence FIX (présidente du jury et rapporteur) -Professeur, Université de Lorraine Mme Hélène LAPLACE-CLAVERIE (rapporteur) -Professeur, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour M. Timothée PICARD -Professeur, Université de Rennes II Mme Éléonore REVERZY -Professeur, Université de Strasbourg Thèse en trois volumes : 2 volumes texte (700 p.), 1 volume iconographie (127 ill.)

Статья посвящена исследованию жанра ориентального травелога в контексте русской путевой прозы конца XVIII - первой трети XIX века. Задачей статьи является рассмотрение жанра ориентального травелога в контексте литературы путешествий на Запад, на окраины России и на Восток. В статье дается краткий обзор современного состояния исследования проблемы травелога. Рассматривается генезис и специфика русского ориентального травелога и образа «русского путешественника на Востоке» в контексте традиции «Писем русского путешественника» Н.М. Карамзина. Обосновывается предпочтительность использования термина «травелог» для описания ориентальной путевой прозы. Анализируются художественные особенности таких травелогов, как «Нещастные приключения Василья Баранщикова», «Очерки Константинополя» К. Базили, «Путешествие в Арзрум» А.С. Пушкина и др. Предлагаются принципы классификации, а также анализируется субъектно-объектный план русских ориентальных травелогов.

The article investigates the genre of Russian oriental travelogue in the context of travel writing in the late of XVIII - early XIX century. Central idea of this article is to show necessity of representing the genre of the travelogue as a complex oriental unity in the broad Russian travelogue discourse, including the travel writing of the West, the outskirts of Russia and the East. The article gives a brief overview of the current state of travelogue’s research problems. The genesis and specificity of the Russian oriental travelogue, the image of «Russian traveler in the East» in the context of the tradition of Karamzin’s «Letters of a Russian Traveler» is analyzed. The preferred use of the term «travelogue» to describe the Russian travel writing is substantiated. Art features of such travelogues as «Vasiliy Baranschikov’s unfortunate adventures», Constantine Basili’s «Sketches of Constantinople», Alexander Pushkin’s «Journey to Erzurum» are studied. Principles of Russian oriental travelogues classification is offered.

Travel was a crucial element of ancient Egyptian culture. An extensive traffic system by land and by water already existed as early as the Old Kingdom, including various means of transport that did not fundamentally change right through to the New Kingdom. Traveling activity attested for various professions demonstrates that Egyptian society exercised a high degree of mobility. In the majority of cases, a journey was undertaken within the scope of the traveler’s work and on behalf of the pharaoh. Travel had a significant impact on the Egyptian world-view as well as on the development of the
identity of Egyptian society as an entity.

In occasione dell’Anno Europeo del Patrimonio Culturale 2018 il Dipartimento di Beni Culturali dell’Università di Bologna ha promosso e organizzato un convegno internazionale, tenutosi a Ravenna nei giorni 21-23 novembre 2018, attraverso il quale, sotto l’umbrella subject del Grand Tour, indagare gli aspetti storici ed attuali relativi al valore
culturale e turistico delle diverse tipologie di beni rientranti nel largo concetto di ‘patrimonio culturale’. Il consesso, strutturato in cinque specifiche sessioni cui hanno partecipato studiosi italiani, francesi, spagnoli ed ungheresi, ha voluto anche dare avvio ad un percorso di valorizzazione delle diverse, ma integrate, competenze e attitudini di
ricerca presenti nel Dipartimento, evidenziando così la multidisciplinarietà che lo caratterizza e la trasversalità di talune indagini e riflessioni scientifiche. Con la pubblicazione degli atti del convegno ravennate non solo si è voluto approfondire storicamente i concetti di patrimonio culturale, viaggio, e turismo, distinti, o collegati nell'ambito del fenomeno del Grand Tour, ma si è inteso esprimere soprattutto la valenza del concetto di condivisione sociale e culturale, che ha permesso fenomeni di vasta portata e di grande incidenza nella storia pubblica come appunto questo del Grand Tour. La condivisione ha implicato nel tempo un percorso complesso di conoscenza dell’altro da sé e sia che si tratti di individui, che delle loro reti sociali, che ancora delle loro sovrastrutture culturali. La condivisione si rivela, così, il vero strumento attraverso il quale “spezzare il pane della scienza

Recuperando una rica tradición de libros de viajes escritos por mujeres, Mónica Szurmuk nos muestra una dimensión insospechada de la construcción de la identidad nacional argentina. Este brillante estudio de relatos de viajeras argentinas y de mujeres extranjeras en Argentina entre 1837 y 1930 revela cómo ellas, al enfocarse en los aspectos de la experiencia viajera relacionados con su papel femenino, la vida doméstica, la maternidad, la enseñanza, introdujeron importantes matices en la imagen de la argentinidad. Al salir de casa, de lo familiar, para encontrarse con lo ajeno, estas mujeres tuvieron que modificar las ideas recibidas de identidad y otredad, pero lo hicieron sin apartarse de lo que sus lectores esperaban de una escritora de su clase y raza. Especialmente sugestivo en este sentido es el análisis de la descripción del paisaje como el escenario de la construcción del sujeto autorial en su encuentro con lo otro. De igual manera reveladoras son las reflexiones de Szurmuk acerca del ambiguo significado de las fronteras de todo tipo para las mujeres que escribieron acerca de sus viajes. Este libro ofrece además importantes planteamientos acerca de la interacción de las diferencias de raza, género, clase y etnia en la formación de las ideas dominantes de la nación argentina.

Brennan’ın kitabını önemli kılan birincil etken, yolculuğunu Irak savaşı başlamadan kısa süre önce, 2000 – 2001 yıllarında gerçekleştirmiş oluşudur. Ksenophon’un yolculuğuna tanıklık etmiş anıtların, kentlerin ve yeryüzü şekillerinin birçoğu, savaş süresince yok edilecektir. Oturduğumuz yerden bizi yolculuğa çıkaran bu kitap, gezi edebiyatının benzersiz bir örneğini oluşturmaktadır. Son yıllarda patlamaya hazır bir coğrafyaya dönüşen bölgede, okuyucuları Ksenophon’un izinden güvenle gezdirir. Geçmişin ve günümüzün anlatıldığı öyküler birbiriyle öyle dengeli harmanlanmıştır ki, okuyucu hem eğlenir hem de tarihe yönelik akademik bilgiler edinir. Brennan, dürüst ve açık anlatımıyla, yolculuğun getirdiği mutlulukları ve zorlukları tüm yalınlığıyla betimlemesiyle ve hem coğrafyaya hem kültürlere hem de kimisi dost canlısı, kimisi düşmanca davranan yerli halka dair gözlemleriyle, okuyucuyu kitabın içine çekip, yolculuğa çıkan okuyucunun kendisiymiş gibi hissettiriyor.
Prof. Jonathan Burgess (Toronto Üniversitesi)

The journey is universally recognized as a narrative in many cultures. Since the earliest times, the act of travelling, of proceeding from one place to another, has been seen as a natural metaphor-- for learning, for the acquisition of knowledge and experience. Indeed the metaphor of travel pervades Western literature. But all metaphors of travel are not alike in their implications, although ‘journey archetype’ lies at the heart of many well known works. As a voyage of self discovery, of exploring new landscapes or as an escape from a stress filled situation, the travel thus inscribed is not only a geographic and cultural process but also a metaphor for the enabling movement of thought itself. Travel as a metaphor involves a voyage of the self, a search for identity through a series of cultural identifications. Travel literature allows the reader experience a particular culture, place, or people through the eyes of the writer. D.H. Lawrence and Lawrence Durrell are widely recognised as one of the finest travel writers. Both had a passion for the Mediterranean islands which each had visited in course of time. Although Lawrence has long been recognised and celebrated as a travel writer where his characters “discover their identities through their response to place”, the serious purpose of his travels has not hitherto been thoroughly studied and evaluated. Lawrence Durrell, on the other hand, lived almost all of his adult life in the Mediterranean, and nearly all of his important writing-including the Alexandria quartet, the Avignon quintet, the poems, and his four travel books-focuses on the region. Durrell's fundamental philosophy about travel is codified as "human beings are expressions of their landscape,..”. His passionate, evocative writing about his travels-in particular the Greek islands-is a timeless exploration of how ‘landscapes shape our experience’. (1976).  While Lawrence’s Sea and Sardinia describes a brief journey, from Taormina in Sicily to the interior of Sardinia in January 1921, as an ‘escape attempt’ or as a potential antitdote to modernity, Durrell’s Sicilian Carousel (1976), forcefully represents  the idea of travel as an escape and  as a search for an existential identity. The paper focuses attention on Lawrence’s book Sea and Sardinia and Durrell’s Sicilian Carousel, where travel is seen as a metaphor for both discovering one’s identity and also in discovering the spirit of the place/ landscape.
Keywords: Travel literature, metaphor, DH Lawrence’s Sea and Sardinia, Lawrence Durrell’s
                    Sicilian Carousel

A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

In this volume, Elisabeth Fraser shows that artists and the works they created in the Mediterranean during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were informed by mutual dependence and reciprocity between European nations and the Ottoman Empire. Her rich exploration of this vibrant cross-cultural exchange challenges the dominant interpretation of European relations with the East during the period, revealing a shared world of fluid and long-sustained interactions.

Voyagers to and from the Ottoman Empire documented their journeys in prints, paintings, and lavishly illustrated travelogues; many of these helped define Europe’s self-identified role as heir to Ottoman civilizations and bolstered its presence in the Islamic Mediterranean and beyond. Fraser finds that these works illuminate not only how travelers’ experiences abroad were more nuanced than the expansionist ideology with which they became associated, but also how these narratives depicted the vitality of Ottoman culture and served as extensions of Ottoman diplomacy. Ottomans were aware of and responded to European representations, using them to defend Ottoman culture and sovereignty. In embracing the art of both cultures and setting these works in a broader context, Fraser challenges the dominant historiographical tradition that sees Ottoman artists adopting European modes of art in a one-sided process of “Europeanization.”

Theoretically informed and rigorously researched, this cross-cultural approach to European and Ottoman art sheds much-needed critical light on the widely disseminated travel images of the era—important cultural artifacts in their own right—and provides a fresh and inviting understanding of the relationships among cultures in the Mediterranean during an era of increasing European expansionism.
ISBN: 978-0-271-07320-0

Contents:

Part I: Power in Question

- Chapter 1 Reading Choiseul in the Gaps of the Orientalist Archive

- Chapter 2 In the Shadow of les Grands: Cassas’s Orientalist Self-Fashioning

Part II: Ottoman Culture Abroad

- Chapter 3 The Translator’s Art: Mouradgea d’Ohsson, Ottoman Dragoman in Paris

- Chapter 4 Miniatures in Black and White: Melling’s Istanbul

Part III: Contradictory Contact

- Chapter 5 Skin of Nation, Body of Empire: Louis Dupré in Ottoman Greece

- Chapter 6 A Painter’s Renunciation: Delacroix in North Africa

The most unusual part of Byron’s European travels in 1809–10 was probably his visit to Albania, where he roughed it for a bit and then lived and travelled luxuriously as the guest of Ali Pasha. He wrote about his Albanian travels in his letters and more famously in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, whose few stanzas on Albania along with their elaborate footnotes have had an extraordinary fall-out. Historians, travellers and at least one army
officer have used Byron’s letters, poems and footnotes to understand the land and its people. Though Byron made Albania seem Romantic, remote, wild and exciting, few followed him into Albania. Those who did, however, tended to write about it with a verve reminiscent of Byron. This essay is about three Byron-inflected British travellers of the earlier twentieth century, Peter Quennell (1905–93), who visited Albania in the 1920s, Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915–), who walked through the Balkans in the 1930s, and the mountaineer Harold W. Tilman (1898–1977), who volunteered for duty in Albania during World War II because it was reputed to be a mountainous country.

Africa has been for many years misinterpreted and often referred to a continent of political instability, refugee’s crisis, civil wars, corruption and under development.
This perception leads and undermines confidence to venture into new businesses across the continent.
Despite many challenges the continent faces, the travel and tourism sector seems to keep moving on a safe pace.

Libro de crónicas de viaje.
Viajes de una guajira es un mapa del mundo garabateado por la curiosidad, la impaciente imaginación, la perplejidad y la fascinación de  su infatigable autora.
Piedrecitas, el pueblo donde nació la autora de este libro, una aldea diminuta en el medio de los    campos dormidos de Camagüey, en Cuba  no aparece en el mapa del mundo. No se suponía que Iris Cepero, una «guajira», llegara muy lejos, si acaso a La Habana, la capital de su país. Se las arregló, sin embargo, para vivir en India, luego entre Londres y Madrid y llegar a Tokio, a Petra, a Angkor, a Moscú, a Jerusalén y a otras muchas tierras. Este libro es el minucioso reporte de su estupefacción, una colección de asombros y estremecimientos.
En una playa de las Galápagos, Iris nada con los leones marinos. En los templos de Sukhotai, en Tailandia, persigue a un escurridizo monje entre estanques y plácidas estatuas de Buda. En Moscú, pasa en puntas de pie frente a la Lubianka, la antigua sede de la KGB, y se sienta en el pavimento  frente al Bolshoi a ver una ópera. En Ferrara, se asoma a la tumba de Lucrecia Borgia. Se pierde en Petra entre los palacios nabateos, hasta que un beduino, vestido de roquero, le indica la salida hacia el siglo XXI. En Kioto, al final del Camino del Filósofo, se sienta a descansar entre las robustas columnas del sanmon del templo Nanzenji. La autora visita la frontera más peligrosa del mundo, entre las dos Coreas (Panmunjeon, el último tren), un recorrido por monasterios moldavos en el norte de Rumanía (La biblia pintada en las paredes), un homenaje a Monet, visitando su casa en Giverny (Veo azul), la fascinación por la velocidad y la grandeza de una megalópolis  como Tokio (Shinjuku), el descubrimiento de las abismales distancias entre dos de las plazas más grandes del mundo, Tiananmén en la capital china y de Jemaa el-Fnaa, en Marrakech, Marruecos (Una historia y dos plazas). La autora viaja en bicicleta por los templos budistas de Angkor en Cambodia (Susurro en una grieta) y en otro de los relatos, la autora se estremece ante la frágil normalidad de las calles de Sarajevo (A través de un cristal). El relato de Moscú es también un viaje al pasado comunista de la ciudad, y en el último de los relatos, la autora visita Palestina, justo al inicio de la pandemia de coronavirus.

Introducción a la colección de relatos de viajeros que visitaron el Ecuador en el siglo XIX aparecidos en la revista francesa "Le Tour du Monde". Se ensaya un estudio filológico sobre las fuentes y se revisa la historia de la revista en relación con temas diversos sobre la representación discursiva y pictórica de los relatos.

Two friends, Auguste Blanchot de Brenas, lawyer native of Velay, and Félix Jouguet, mining engineer in the Cevennes, visit the Languedoc. A meet in the City of Carcassonne drive them to explore the Corbières, inaccessible and unknown country. In his paper, Auguste tells with humour their adventures on the bad paths. Good observer, he describes with fidelity and talent beautiful landscapes, meeting colourful character, manners and customs of this wilderness. Passionate by legends, he tells the exploits de Lady Carcas against Charlemagne at Carcassonne, harms of washerwomen fairies who bewitch the young men, and "The Sermon of the Cucugnan priest" to save his parishioners from hell. This last tale was immortalized throw plagiarism of Roumanille and Alphonse Daudet but his discover was forgotten. This paper wants to discover who is this author and the interest of his travel story.

Deux jeunes amis, Auguste Blanchot de Brenas, avocat originaire du Velay et Félix Jouguet, ingénieur des mines dans les Cévennes, visitent le Languedoc. Une rencontre dans la Cité de Carcassonne les pousse à explorer les Corbières, région alors inaccessible et ignorée. Dans son journal, Auguste conte avec beaucoup d’humour leurs aventures sur les mauvais chemins des Corbières. Fin observateur, il restitue avec fidélité et talent les paysages grandioses, les rencontres avec de pittoresques personnages, les mœurs et les coutumes de cette contrée sauvage. Passionné par les légendes, il raconte les exploits de Dame Carcas contre Charlemagne à Carcassonne, les méfaits des fées lavandières qui font tourner la tête aux jeunes garçons et le sermon du curé de Cucugnan pour sauver ses ouailles de l’enfer. Cette dernière histoire, est devenue célèbre grâce aux plagiats de Roumanille et Alphonse Daudet mais son inventeur reste bien oublié. Cet article se propose de découvrir qui est cet auteur et quel est l’intérêt de son récit.

Η παρούσα εργασία αναφέρεται στην καταγραφή, μελέτη και ανάδειξη των υπαίθριων γλυπτών (ανδριάντες, μνημεία, προτομές κτλ) της πόλης της Άρτας.

Περιλαμβάνει την καταγραφή δεκαπέντε (15) γλυπτών της πόλης καθώς και παράρτημα με πρωτογενές συνοδευτικό φωτογραφικό υλικό.

Αποτελεί προϊόν επιτόπιας έρευνας και καταγραφής σε συνδυασμό με την μελέτη της υπάρχουσας βιβλιογραφίας.

'Horizon' is a multi-dimensional work, covering autobiography, travelogue, ecology, anthropology, and many fascinating asides on subjects such as art, and the history of exploration. Like 'Arctic Dreams', this is a smorgasbord of riches, a collation of deeply considered riches, and in this book a summation of a uniquely privileged life.

Review of "Beatrice's Last Smile: A Jpurney Through Germany' by Iqbal Ahmed, the third book in a series of books about the experience of migration to the West, in which he turns his attention to Europe: his first two books focused on Britain.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1403015

LETTERS

INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY ACADEMIC CONFERENCE

27-29 APRIL 2017 – INTERHOTEL CHERNO MORE, VARNA, BULGARIA
ORGANIZERS: THE BULGARIAN SOCIETY FOR BRITISH STUDIES (BSBS)
and
THE BULGARIAN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION (BASA)
Advisory Committee:
Ludmilla Kostova (University of Veliko Turnovo), Zelma Catalan (University of Sofia), Vitana Kostadinova (University of Plovdiv), Andrei Andreev (New Bulgarian University). Irina Perianova (University of National and World Economy), Kostadin Grozev (University of Sofia), Madeleine Danova (University of Sofia).

LETTERS can be written characters representing sounds, written  messages, epistles, certified documents granting rights. “LETTERS”  can mean “learning”  or “literary culture.” 
This conference aims at bringing together scholars, both established and emergent, working within one or more of the research areas studying LETTERS.
Topics include,  but are not restricted to:
- letters and/in systems of writing;
- sound/letter correlations;
- letters and literacies;
- letter symbolism;
- written letters vs spoken words;
- epistolary communication from a historical perspective;
- epistolarities old and new;
- from love letters to hate mail;
- letters and the politics of travel ;
- pseudo-letters and the politics of authorship; 
- representations of  epistolary communication in literature and other arts; 
- methods of studying letters and epistolarity;
- letters and historical research;
- editing letters;
- belles-lettres;
- the Republic of Letters and other networks.

Abstracts (ca 300 words) and short bios are to be emailed to conferencevarna17@gmail.com by 16 January 2017.

The virtual exhibition, elaborated within the SNSF-project "Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe", aims to demonstrate the importance of al-Andalus for 19th-century art and architecture by presenting the architectural sketches of the Zurich painter Wilhelm Meyer, made during his sojourn in Spain in 1845-1846.
Exhibition concept: Francine Giese and Ariane Varela Braga
Visit on: http://wilhelmmeyer.transculturalstudies.ch/en/al-andalus-in-zurich.html

This article addresses Rachel’s Tomb as a site of heightened ritual activity and pilgrimage, whose popularity increased during the latter years of the British Mandate in Palestine, and whose role and meaning as a symbolic public site have been transformed. We examine how a set of meanings has been established at the site at the particular historic moment, converging local and national meanings, on the one hand, with religious, heritage and touristic meanings, on the other. Our approach is integrative, and we situate our inquiry by addressing three main conceptual points: the first is the site’s geo-physical characteristics, by which we refer to its functionality in terms of location, accessibility, and mobility, as well as in terms of the site’s size and material characteristics. The second point concerns the agentive interventions of the site’s renowned shamash, Shlomo Eliyahu Freimann, and the crucial role that he played in transforming the site’s collective function and public status. The third point concerns a corpus of documents, most of which were written in situ, that center around the site’s impressive visitor books, filled with numerous notations. Study of these documents suggests a hybrid genre that is part of the site’s changing discursive ecology.

I have since identified the author as John Peyton; see Sebastian Sobecki, 'John Peyton's A Relation of the State of Polonia and the Accession of King James I, 1598-1603. The English Historical Review, 129: 540 (2014), 1079-97. http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/content/129/540/1079

This article explores theoretical alternatives to contemporary western hegemonic feminist discourses, advancing methodologies that mark an epistemological break with western feminist scholarship; namely Orientalist criticism, third world (black) feminism, and Islamic feminism with all the innovative methodologies and insights they offer into studying and understanding the condition and reception of women in the material and immaterial culture of the Arab/ Islamic experience.

This research aims to elaborate the journey of Australian Indigenous in Tara June Winch's novel entitled Swallow the Air. This novel is about journey of half-Aboriginal girl through Australia in search of self-realisation and sense of belonging. She encounters the condition of modern Australia which is different from her expectation about traditional land. The encounters result negotiations between herself and Other. Using Carl Thompson's concept of travel writing, this research analyze the pattern of reportation of the world, revelation of self, and represetation of other, also elaborate agenda of Swallow the Air as a travelogue. The analysis uses are close reading and comparative as a research method. This research shows that modern Indigenous' identity and cultural crisis affected the pattern of travelogue. The pattern of reportation of the world and representation of other indicate subject position, between Europe and Aborigin. She portrays both sides as other, also deliver her comment on each group. As a postcolonial travel writing, this novel depicts power relation in contemporary Australia, to deliver ethical challenge to the government about Indigenous reconciliation. Carrying the spirit of cosmopolitan vision, this novel offers negotiation between traditional and modern values. It also conveys the strategy of liberation by directing toward wider identity, national or even global identity. As Indigenous travel writing, mobility in this novel accommodates the creation of wider and further attempt of resistence, by using network among communities or 'homes' as inter-sites of resistance placed under the umbrella of Australian nation. Nevertheless, that resistance attempt is nof fully flawless since it also contains risk of falling to the force of globalisation.

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Human Geography and travel ; The debate traveler / tourist and stereotypes to avoid ;The evolution of the meaning of the humanist and functionalist definitions of the trip; The evolution of the word "travel" ; The evolution of the meaning of the word "tourism"; Practice and psychology of "traveling".

As travel narratives often help the author-narrator (re)discover his or her own identity along the journey, this also holds true for William Least Heat-Moon's 1982 bestseller Blue Highways. According to Ronald Primeau’s definition of American road literature, Blue Highways depicts a typical journey of self-discovery as the archetypal American endeavor of traveling into unknown territory gives the narrator the “freedom to explore or redefine [himself]” (15). Moreover, Blue Highways also follows the traditional travel narrative structure of departure – journey – return. However, Heat-Moon follows this structure in a specific way in that he pursues the form of a circle, a leitmotif represented on all levels of the book (visually, formally and conceptually). In many ways, Heat-Moon’s insights in Blue Highways and his statements about the book in interviews are strikingly reminiscent of transcendentalist ideas, especially those of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Particularly Emerson’s 1841 essay “Circles” contains many passages that resemble Heat-Moon's acting and thinking on his journey, and it is not surprising that he has been called a “modern-day Transcendentalist” and his writing a “transcendental argument.” Departing from these previously unexplored parallels, I will compare the two works in the context of the myth of American mobility and its mediation in literature, taking into account aspects of self-redefinition, change and identity by drawing new ‘circles’ on both an individual and a collective level.

Comment écrire le voyage aujourd’hui ? Comment se repérer dans la production pléthorique de la littérature des voyages ? Et comment appréhender un genre littéraire tellement décrié qu’il lui arrive d’être déprécié par ses auteurs mêmes ? En prenant appui sur les grands courants d’après-guerre, cet essai montre combien la guerre a opéré une profonde rupture dans le récit de voyage en France, et comment ce genre littéraire s’est reconstruit et régénéré jusqu’aujourd’hui en traversant les grandes étapes de l’histoire littéraire récente.

En prenant soin d’abord de définir le genre littéraire du récit de voyage, aussi éloigné de la fiction que du traité scientifique, on suit la trace des récits géographiques depuis 1945 de manière à repérer les tensions qui sont apparus entre les courants novateurs et les tendances conservatrices au sein du genre lui-même.

Apparaissent alors des tropismes ethnographiques, structuralistes et formalistes du récit de voyage. Ce livre donne des outils et des armes pour célébrer et critiquer la littérature viatique et aider la production contemporaine à renouer avec sa prestigieuse tradition. De Claude Lévi-Strauss à Jean Rolin, en passant par Michel Butor et Nicolas Bouvier, les écrivains voyageurs sont parvenus, peut-être à leur insu, à inventer une langue aux prises avec les changements du monde tout en dialoguant avec les origines du genre « voyage ».

Next quarter, I will be teaching a senior history seminar. The following is a lengthy document that includes
1. the course syllabus
2. weakly reading packets and assignments (excluding the primary sources)
3. research paper guide.

This course is designed to help history majors refine their critical analysis, synthesis, and research skills. The topic is travel. We will be reading accounts of explorers as well as descriptions of journeys to fantastical worlds. Each week students will be asked to reflect on the following question: What do Western (European) accounts of non-Western places and peoples (real or imagined) reveal about Western society and the intellectual culture of medieval and early modern Europe?

Although the course content is limited to medieval and early modern travel narratives, as you can see from the research paper guide (pp. 34–48) students will have the opportunity to choose research topics outside this temporal scope. Students may choose to write a research paper on any primary source that takes the reader on a journey from Western society to a new or, as of yet, undiscovered place. Sources may include medieval travel literature as well as more modern adventure narratives such as the novels of Jules Verne or even Hitchhicker’s Guide to the Galaxy