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Greek Dystopia in British Women Travellers’ Discourse

Dimitrios Kassis

Author : Dimitrios Kassis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781527509641

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Greece has always occupied a prevalent position in European philosophy. During the Enlightenment, the Greco-Roman culture gained a new impetus, which paved the way for the surge of the Grand Tour and established Italy as a popular travel destination amongst European travellers who yearned to be in close communion with its ancient sites. Unlike Italy, Greece still posed a challenge to the average travel writer, since it functioned as a bridge between Europe and the Orient. The gradual shift of focus from Neoclassical ideals to Northernism, which conveniently conformed to the nation-building Anglo-Saxon paradigm, marked a parallel reversal of cultural order, which resulted in the view of Greece as a land of piracy and banditry, conditions which intensified its perception as the Oriental Other and led British intellectuals to associate the Greek nation with nearby countries on various levels. Considering the parallel emergence of the “pseudosciences”, which venerated the image of the Nordic race and persistently viewed other nations as the Other, Greece was automatically placed as an alien culture in the light of Social Darwinism. During its war of independence, Greece became the subject of ardent political and cultural debates, which favoured its autonomy from the Ottoman yoke, yet undermined its complete transformation into an independent state. The focal point of this book is British women travellers’ perceptions of Greece and the Orient from the late-eighteenth century until the late-Victorian era. The construction of a Greek dystopia will be explored in relation to the historical background that fuelled the negative conceptualisation of the Greek nation as mongrel, unruly, indolent and perilous to the British imperialist agenda. This book, therefore, sheds light on British women travellers’ efforts to subvert patriarchal authority and engage in predominantly male activities, during which they are purposefully or unconsciously led to several misconceptions regarding the Greek cause.

Dystopian Depictions of Serbia in British Travel Literature

Dimitrios Kassis

Author : Dimitrios Kassis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527577053

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Dystopian Depictions of Serbia in British Travel Literature by Dimitrios Kassis Pdf

Without any doubt, one of the European regions that has never ceased to trouble the Westerner traveller is the Balkan Peninsula, which functioned as a terra incognita within the British travel canon, and served as the transit point to the Ottoman Empire or the Old Grecian world. At a time when Anglo-Saxonism occupied a prevalent position in British political discourse, the Balkan Peninsula came to epitomise all the negative qualities of the Orient that British travellers were anxious to apply to alien countries that were far removed from the nation-building agenda of the Empire. As such, classified as the fringe of the Orient, Serbia was persistently depicted as a politically unstable region, inhabited by primitive ethnic groups that could possibly threaten the viability of the British imperialist interests in European Turkey. In the light of the Serbian national struggle to promote the idea of a South-Slavic Union or forge an identity against the Austrian and Ottoman Empires, some British travellers undertook a journey to all the Balkan states where Serbians formed the majority of the population to demonise the War of Liberation of the Balkan states against the Ottoman yoke, treating it as visible evidence of Russian Expansionism. This book concentrates on dystopian British imagology of Serbia as a travel destination, including travel accounts produced from 1717 until 1911, a year prior to the outbreak of the First World War. The travel texts incorporated into this volume shed light on all the conceptualisations of the Balkans, addressing the sociopolitical conditions that sparked the national awakening of Serbia.

Glimpses of the Bulgarian Other in British Travel Literature

Dimitrios Kassis

Author : Dimitrios Kassis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527591073

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Glimpses of the Bulgarian Other in British Travel Literature by Dimitrios Kassis Pdf

Until its emancipation from the Ottoman yoke, Bulgaria always occupied an unprivileged and unfavourable position in British imagination, from the very first mention of the country in Western travelogues. However, since the late eighteenth century, the Bulgarian nation has been subjected to the scrutiny of the British traveller owing to its proximity to other nations whose national struggles received more prominence, and consequently overshadowed the Bulgarians’ National Renaissance, such as Serbia and Greece. This volume concerns all the depictions of Bulgaria as a dystopian land from the eighteenth century until the country’s emergence as an important military power after its Liberation movement in 1878. In these travel narratives, the notion of the Bulgarian nationhood is described as an antithesis to idea of the civilised British, but also as a threat to the stability of the Ottoman Empire. With the rapid decline of the latter, from a mere Ottoman province, Bulgaria gradually transforms into a nation whose National Revival efforts come to the fore to question the British and Ottoman depictions of the Bulgarian nation as subaltern and uncultivated.

Images of Irishness in Nineteenth-Century Travel Literature

Dimitrios Kassis

Author : Dimitrios Kassis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781527520226

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Images of Irishness in Nineteenth-Century Travel Literature by Dimitrios Kassis Pdf

Since its annexation to the British Crown, Ireland has never ceased in forming the subject of an ardent national debate in Great Britain which resulted in the demonisation of the Celtic race as subaltern and backward. In its effort to forge a national identity, the British Empire adopted several collective identities on the basis of the racial and cultural findings of the 1850s which gave a new impetus to the systematic view of England as a typically Anglo-Saxon culture, staunchly opposed to the alleged Celtic backwardness and the rebellious spirit of the Irish. In view of the rising anti-Irish wave of sentiment in the British imperialist imagination, Irish nationalism was manifest through a series of uprisings, the majority of which sought to link the country to its ancient Celtic heritage. The Celticist movements of Young Ireland and the Irish Revival revealed the need of Irish Nationalists to acquire a new, collective identity, which proved to be a strenuous task, given the complex historical and ethnic background of the Irish. This book investigates the extent to which Irish identity is affected by the racist and nationalist discourses of the nineteenth century which emerged to either defend or oppose the image of Ireland as a cultural construct. The travelogues explored here include some of the most fundamental representations of Ireland by prominent Irish and British travel writers, whose impressions of the island might be linked to the utopian and dystopian dimensions of the country.

Women's Authorship and the Early Gothic

Kathleen Hudson

Author : Kathleen Hudson
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786836113

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Women's Authorship and the Early Gothic by Kathleen Hudson Pdf

This edited collection examines Gothic works written by women authors in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with a specific focus on the novels and chapbooks produced by less widely commercially and critically popular writers. Bringing these authors to the forefront of contemporary critical examinations of the Gothic, chapters in this collection examine how these works impacted the development of ‘women’s writing’ and Gothic writing during this time. Offering readers an original look at the literary landscape of the period and the roles of the creative women who defined it, the collection argues that such works reflected a female-centred literary subculture defined by creative exchange and innovation, one that still shapes perceptions of the Gothic mode today. This collection, then, presents an alternative understanding of the legacy of women Gothic authors, anchoring this understanding in complex historical and social contexts and providing a new world of Gothic literature for readers to explore.

Rhythmanalysis

Dawn Lyon

Author : Dawn Lyon
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839099724

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This collection brings together new and original research on the concept and practice of ‘rhythmanalysis’ in urban sociology as a means to analyse the relationship between the time and space of the city.

Perceptions of Germany in British Travel Literature

Dimitrios Kassis

Author : Dimitrios Kassis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781527543201

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Perceptions of Germany in British Travel Literature by Dimitrios Kassis Pdf

As part of the “beaten track”, Germany did not conform to the Grand Tourist ideals of eighteenth-century British travellers that were influenced by the spirit of the Enlightenment, and, therefore, sought to trace vestiges of the Greco-Roman cultural tradition in their ventures across the continent. It was not until the end of the eighteenth century that the German landscape becomes the central theme of British travel discourse, marking the gradual shift of focus from the “saturated” image of classical Greece to the rediscovery of the Old Germanic culture of the sagas. Driven by an antiquarian interest in the German context, British travellers discovered Germany in the wake of the nineteenth century, when the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire not only signalled French expansionism in Protestant Europe, but also stimulated the appetite of the Victorians for the exploration of the German culture in an attempt to define themselves as being of pure Teutonic stock. Given the strenuous struggle of German thinkers to deal with the feelings of humiliation and shame caused by the Napoleonic rule, and, in view of a potential Gallicisation, nineteenth-century Germans mastered the fields of comparative philology and Northern antiquarianism to transform their political weakness into a new cultural paradigm that not only fostered pan-Germanism through the rediscovery of the folk tales and legends of their medieval tradition, but also ascribed to Germany a superior spiritual role, which was later incorporated into the racial discourses of Germany and Britain. This book is concerned with the views of British travel writers, focusing on travel narratives produced from 1794 until 1845. As such, it sheds light on instances which pertain to the representation of Germanness in relation to the British national context.

British Women's Travel to Greece, 1840–1914

Dr Churnjeet Mahn

Author : Dr Churnjeet Mahn
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409484004

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British Women's Travel to Greece, 1840–1914 by Dr Churnjeet Mahn Pdf

Beginning with the publication of the first Murray guidebook to Greece in 1840 and ending with Virginia Woolf's journey to Athens, this book offers a genealogy of British women's travel literature about Greece. Churnjeet Mahn recounts the women's first-hand experiences of the sites and sights of antiquity, analyzing travel accounts by archaeologists, ethnographers, journalists, and tourists to chart women's renderings of Modern Greece through a series of discursive lenses. Mahn's offers insights into the importance of the Murray and Baedeker guidebooks; how knowledge of Greece and Classical Studies were used to justify colonial rule of India at the same time that Agnes Smith Lewis and Jane Ellen Harrison used Greece as a symbol of women's emancipation; British women's production of the first anthropological accounts of Modern Greece; and fin-de-siècle women who asserted their right to see and claim antiquity at the same time that the safety of the independent lady traveler was being called into question by the media.

Deconstructions of the Russian Empire in Western Travel Literature

Dimitrios Kassis

Author : Dimitrios Kassis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781527561298

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Deconstructions of the Russian Empire in Western Travel Literature by Dimitrios Kassis Pdf

Situated between Europe and Asia, Russia has systematically challenged the European theories attached to nationhood due to its geopolitical and cultural peculiarities. After the rise of European nationalist movements, imperial Russia posed a threat to the very existence of the Germanic empires of Britain, Germany and Austria, and was frequently evoked to epitomise European barbarism, paganism, despotism and the Orient. In its struggle to acquire a new identity, which would bridge the gap with Western empires, Russia could not conform to the rising Anglo-Saxon movements that sought to glorify Nordic supremacy at the expense of the Oriental Other. Drawing upon this binary opposition between the Orient and the Occident, the Russian Empire concentrated on the development of its own nation-building theories, which managed to incorporate the ascending Pan-Slavic wave into its nationalist agenda. The anti-Western rhetoric that often characterised Russian politics contributed to the subversion of the conventional Western perspective of the Orient and the emergence of Eurasianism as a political theory that exalted the different traits of its imperial system. This book sets the focus on the representations of the Russian Empire from 1792 until 1912 in the field of travel literature. To this end, it selects British and American travel narratives of the aforementioned period to explore all aspects of Russian identity and culture. For this reason, it addresses major issues attached to Russian history and culture that were investigated by Western travellers in their attempt to approach the Russian Empire.

Travel and Ethics

Corinne Fowler,Charles Forsdick,Ludmilla Kostova

Author : Corinne Fowler,Charles Forsdick,Ludmilla Kostova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135019341

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Travel and Ethics by Corinne Fowler,Charles Forsdick,Ludmilla Kostova Pdf

Despite the recent increase in scholarly activity regarding travel writing and the accompanying proliferation of publications relating to the form, its ethical dimensions have yet to be theorized with sufficient rigour. Drawing from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, literary studies and modern languages, the contributors in this volume apply themselves to a number of key theoretical questions pertaining to travel writing and ethics, ranging from travel-as-commoditization to encounters with minority languages under threat. Taken collectively, the essays assess key critical legacies from parallel disciplines to the debate so far, such as anthropological theory and postcolonial criticism. Also considered, and of equal significance, are the ethical implications of the form’s parallel genres of writing, such as ethnography and journalism. As some of the contributors argue, innovations in these genres have important implications for the act of theorizing travel writing itself and the mode and spirit in which it continues to be conducted. In the light of such innovations, how might ethical theory maintain its critical edge?

Lire Margaret Atwood

Marta Dvorak

Author : Marta Dvorak
Publisher : Rennes [France] : Presses universitaires de Rennes
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Canadian literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028802994

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Lire Margaret Atwood by Marta Dvorak Pdf

Ce recueil bilingue consacré à l'écrivain canadien Margaret Atwood, reconnue comme l'une des figures dominantes de la littérature d'expression anglaise, contient l'intervention qu'elle a prononcée à Rennes en novembre 1998 sur son roman The Handmaid's Tale (La Servante écarlate) et sur le genre auquel il appartient. Le roman, inscrit aux programmes 1999 du CAPES et de l'agrégation d'anglais, a été l'un des plus grands succès littéraires des années 80 aux États-Unis, au Canada et en Grande-Bre.

Lord of the World

Robert Hugh Benson

Author : Robert Hugh Benson
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775453659

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Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson Pdf

This dystopian tale from Robert Hugh Benson offers a unique spiritual twist on typical end-of-the-world narratives: in Benson's imagined future, it's the Catholic Church that offers the only respite from encroaching doom. Whatever your religious beliefs may be, Lord of the World is a gripping must-read for fans of novels like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984.

The Gate to Women's Country

Sheri S. Tepper

Author : Sheri S. Tepper
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307573445

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The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper Pdf

“Lively, thought-provoking . . . the plot is ingenious, packing a wallop of a surprise . . . Tepper knows how to write a well-made, on-moving story with strong characters. . . . She takes the mental risks that are the lifeblood of science fiction and all imaginative narrative.”—Ursula K. LeGuin, Los Angeles Times Since the flames died three hundred years ago, human civilization has evolved into a dual society: Women’s Country, where walled towns enclose what’s left of past civilization, nurtured by women and a few nonviolent men; and the adjacent garrisons where warrior men live—the lost brothers, sons, and lovers of those in Women’s Country. Two societies. Two competing dreams. Two ways of life, kept apart by walls stronger than stone. And yet there is a gate between them. . . . “Tepper not only keeps us reading . . . she provokes a new look at the old issues.”—The Washington Post “Tepper’s cast of both ordinary and extraordinary people play out a powerful drama whose significance goes beyond sex to deal with the toughest problem of all, the challenge of surmounting humanity’s most dangerous flaws so we can survive—despite ourselves.”—Locus

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771008795

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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Pdf

An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Neil Postman

Author : Neil Postman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 014303653X

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Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman Pdf

What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever. "It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNN Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals. “A brilliant, powerful, and important book. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one.” –Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

Greek Dystopia In British Women Travellers Discourse

Greek Dystopia in British Women Travellers’ Discourse by Dimitrios Kassis Pdf

Dystopian Depictions of Serbia in British Travel Literature by Dimitrios Kassis Pdf

Glimpses of the Bulgarian Other in British Travel Literature by Dimitrios Kassis Pdf

Images of Irishness in Nineteenth-Century Travel Literature by Dimitrios Kassis Pdf

Women's Authorship and the Early Gothic by Kathleen Hudson Pdf

Rhythmanalysis by Dawn Lyon Pdf

Perceptions of Germany in British Travel Literature by Dimitrios Kassis Pdf

British Women's Travel to Greece, 1840–1914 by Dr Churnjeet Mahn Pdf

Deconstructions of the Russian Empire in Western Travel Literature by Dimitrios Kassis Pdf

Travel and Ethics by Corinne Fowler,Charles Forsdick,Ludmilla Kostova Pdf

Lire Margaret Atwood by Marta Dvorak Pdf

Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson Pdf

The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper Pdf

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Pdf

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman Pdf

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