Travel And Travail

Author : Mary C. Fuller
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496210296

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Travel and Travail by Mary C. Fuller Pdf

Popular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious, dishonest, and unchaste. As the essays in Travel and Travail reveal, however, early modern women did travel, often quite extensively, with no diminution of their moral fiber. Female travelers were also frequently represented on the English stage and in other creative works, both as a reproach to the ban on female travel and as a reflection of historical women's travel, whether intentional or not. Travel and Travail conclusively refutes the notion of female travel in the early modern era as "an absent presence." The first part of the volume offers analyses of female travelers (often recently widowed or accompanied by their husbands), the practicalities of female travel, and how women were thought to experience foreign places. The second part turns to literature, including discussions of roving women in Shakespeare, Margaret Cavendish, and Thomas Heywood. Whether historical actors or fictional characters, women figured in the wider world of the global Renaissance, not simply in the hearth and home.

Author : Patricia Akhimie,Bernadette Andrea
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1496210301

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Travel and Travail by Patricia Akhimie,Bernadette Andrea Pdf

Author : Shayne Aaron Legassie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226442730

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The Medieval Invention of Travel by Shayne Aaron Legassie Pdf

Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During a time in history when travel was often difficult, expensive, and fraught with danger, these wayfarers composed accounts of their experiences in unprecedented numbers and transformed traditional conceptions of human mobility. Exploring this phenomenon, The Medieval Invention of Travel draws on an impressive array of sources to develop original readings of canonical figures such as Marco Polo, John Mandeville, and Petrarch, as well as a host of lesser-known travel writers. As Shayne Aaron Legassie demonstrates, the Middle Ages inherited a Greco-Roman model of heroic travel, which viewed the ideal journey as a triumph over temptation and bodily travail. Medieval travel writers revolutionized this ancient paradigm by incorporating practices of reading and writing into the ascetic regime of the heroic voyager, fashioning a bold new conception of travel that would endure into modern times. Engaging methods and insights from a range of disciplines, The Medieval Invention of Travel offers a comprehensive account of how medieval travel writers and their audiences reshaped the intellectual and material culture of Europe for centuries to come.

Author : Noel B. Salazar
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785339363

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Momentous Mobilities by Noel B. Salazar Pdf

Grounded in scholarly analysis and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, Momentous Mobilities disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop an anthropology of mobility. Both focusing specifically on how various societies and cultures imagine and value boundary-crossing mobilities “elsewhere” and drawing heavily on his own European lifeworld, the author examines momentous travels abroad in the context of education, work, and spiritual quests and the search for a better quality of life.

Author : Mike Pincombe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351877572

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Travels and Translations in the Sixteenth Century by Mike Pincombe Pdf

In recent years the twin themes of travel and translation have come to be regarded as particularly significant to the study of early modern culture and literature. Traditional notions of 'The Renaissance' have always emphasised the importance of the influence of continental, as well as classical, literature on English writers of the period; and over the past twenty years or so this emphasis has been deepened by the use of more complicated and sophisticated theories of literary and cultural intertextuality, as well as broadened to cover areas such as religious and political relations, trade and traffic, and the larger formations of colonialism and imperialism. The essays collected here address the full range of traditional and contemporary issues, providing new light on canonical authors from More to Shakespeare, and also directing critical attention to many unfamiliar texts which need to be better known for our fuller understanding of sixteenth-century English literature. This volume makes a very particular contribution to current thinking on Anglo-continental literary relations in the sixteenth century. Maintaining a breadth and balance of concerns and approaches, Travels and Translations in the Sixteenth Century represents the academic throughout Europe: essays are contributed by scholars working in Hungary, Greece, Italy, and France, as well as in the UK. Arthur Kinney's introduction to the collection provides an North American overview of what is perhaps a uniquely comprehensive index to contemporary European criticism and scholarship in the area of early modern travel and translation.

Author : Thomas Zimmerman
Publisher : Cyberwit.Net
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9390601541

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Travel/ Travail by Thomas Zimmerman Pdf

The chief characteristic of these poems is extreme simplicity of style united with profound emotion. The poems reveal impressive imagination, blended with strange and beautiful word-pictures. BIO Thomas Zimmerman teaches English, directs the Writing Center, and edits The Big Windows Review and The Huron River Review at Washtenaw Community College, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. He was nominated for an Association of Community College Trustees faculty member award in 2005 and received the Distinguished Humanities Educator Award from the Community College Humanities Association in 2012. Tom has been active in the small press since the late 1980s. Among his recent publications are the chapbook Conjugal Spaces: A Poem (Zetataurus Press, 2020) and the full-length collection Domestic Sonnets (Cyberwit.net, 2021). Tom's website: thomaszimmerman.wordpress.com

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : MINN:31951002025940C

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Encyclopaedia Londinensis, Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frances Mayes
Publisher : Random House
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9780553814439

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A Year in the World by Frances Mayes Pdf

The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany returns to immerse herself - and her readers - in the sights, aromas and treasures of twelve new special places.A YEAR IN THE WORLD is vintage Frances Mayes - a celeb

Author : Encyclopaedia Perthensis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600047008

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The new encyclopædia; or, Universal dictionary ofarts and sciences by Encyclopaedia Perthensis Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NLS:V000456079

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Encyclopaedia Perthensis by Anonim Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1805
Category : English language
ISBN : NYPL:33433070243393

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A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Alain De Botton
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780771026287

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A Week at the Airport by Alain De Botton Pdf

The bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and The Art of Travel spends a week at an airport in a wittily intriguing meditation on the "non-place" that he believes is the centre of our civilization. In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton was invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever writer-in-residence. Given unprecedented, unrestricted access to wander around one of the world's busiest airports, he met travellers from all over the globe, and spoke with everyone from baggage handlers to pilots, and senior executives to the airport chaplain. Based on these conversations he has produced this extraordinary meditation on the nature of travel, work, relationships, and our daily lives. Working with the renowned documentary photographer Richard Baker, he explores the magical and the mundane, and the interactions of travellers and workers all over this familiar but mysterious "non-place," which by definition we are eager to leave. Taking the reader through departures, "air-side," and the arrivals hall, de Botton shows with his usual combination of wit and wisdom that spending time in an airport can be more revealing than we might think.

Author : Allison Coffelt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1941360149

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Maps Are Lines We Draw by Allison Coffelt Pdf

After a decade of dreaming, Allison Coffelt arrived in Haiti, ready--she thought--to learn how much she didn't know" about the Caribbean nation. Traveling the highways with Dr. Jean Gardy Marius, founder of the public health organization OSAPO, she embarked on a life-changing journey that would weave Haiti's proud, tumultuous history and present reality into her life forever. Maps Are Lines We Draw explores the culture and natural beauty of the island as well as its discomfiting realities: the threat well-intentioned aid organizations can present to the local economy; the privilege that determines who gets to travel between a "here" and a distant "there" which is foreign and other; and the challenge of doing short-term good without creating long-lasting harm.

Author : Paul Smethurst,Julia Kuehn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137457257

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New Directions in Travel Writing Studies by Paul Smethurst,Julia Kuehn Pdf

This collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse. Internationally renowned, as well as emerging, scholars establish a critical milieu for travel writing studies, as well as offer a set of exemplars in the application of theory to travel writing.

Author : Charles Forsdick,Zoë Kinsley,Kathryn Walchester
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783089246

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Keywords for Travel Writing Studies by Charles Forsdick,Zoë Kinsley,Kathryn Walchester Pdf

Keywords for Travel Writing Studies draws on the notion of the ‘keyword’ as initially elaborated by Raymond Williams in his seminal 1976 text Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society to present 100 concepts central to the study of travel writing as a literary form. Each entry in the volume is around 1,000 words, the style more essayistic than encyclopaedic, with contributors reflecting 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.