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Author : Robert Eisner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0472082205
Stories of scholars, writers, artists, and explorers woven together in a narrative of Greek travel
Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307792266
Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbors. Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some only imagined, but all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In an Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it does eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell.
Author : Connie Willis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Bloggers
ISBN : 1596068760
Dust jacket illustration, Ã2018 by Jon Foster.
Author : Christopher Hayward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1715391853
A collection of short poems inspired by the archaeological heritage of Greece, and the experience of a student and scholar travelling the country.
Author : Nigel Leask
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191554391
The decades between 1770 and 1840 are rich in exotic accounts of the ruin-strewn landscapes of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico. Yet it is a field which has been neglected by scholars and which - unjustifiably - remains outside the literary canon. In this pioneering book, Nigel Leask studies the Romantic obsession with these 'antique lands', drawing generously on a wide range of eighteenth and nineteenth-century travel books, as well as on recent scholarship in literature, history, geography, and anthropology. Viewing the texts primarily as literary works rather than 'transparent' adventure stories or documentary sources, he sets out to challenge the tendency in modern academic work to overemphasize the authoritative character of colonial discourse. Instead, he addresses the relationship between narrative, aesthetics, and colonialism through the unstable discourse of antiquarianism, exploring the effects of problems of credit worthiness, and the nebulous epistemological claims of 'curiosity' (a leitmotif of the accounts studied here), on the contemporary status of travel writing. Attentive to the often divergent idioms of elite and popular exoticism, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing plots the transformation of the travelogue through the period, as the baroque particularism of curiosity was challenged by picturesque aesthetics, systematic 'geographical narrative', and the emergence of a 'transcendental self' axiomatic to Romantic culture. In so doing it offers an important reformulation of the relations between literature, aesthetics, and empire in the late Enlightenment and Romantic periods.
Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1511470755
Here is the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley like you've never seen it before. With strange illustrations that breathe a new life into the poem, this book is something different for you to add to your bookshelf.
Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : English poetry
ISBN : OXFORD:600050592
Author : William Studebaker
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106014559600
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press William Studebaker's poetry offers insight into life in the High Desert. The photographs by Russell Hepworth are traditional in form and intend to convey a relaxed by philosophical look at High Desert environment, leaving prolonged space for poetic musing.
Author : Mogens Trolle Larsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317949954
The Conquest of Assyria tells what must surely be one of the most romantic tales of archaeological endeavour. The great cities and ancient palaces of Mesopotamia had lain buried for over two millenia, and were all but forgotten, half remembered in the Hebrew Bible and Classical texts. This volume records the dramatic finds, the decipherment of the cuneiform system of writing and the rediscovery of a lost civilisation.
Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : HMH
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780547527130
A journalist who “illuminates the human drama behind the headlines” writes about today’s dramatic events, from terrorist attacks to tsunamis (Publishers Weekly). “An uncannily honest writer,” Amitav Ghosh has published firsthand accounts of pivotal world events in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and the New Yorker (The New York Times Book Review). This volume brings together the finest of these pieces, chronicling the turmoil of our times. Incendiary Circumstances begins with Ghosh’s arrival in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands just days after the devastation of the 2005 tsunami. We then travel back to September 11, 2001, as Ghosh retrieves his young daughter from school, sick with the knowledge that she must witness the kind of firestorm that has been in the background of his life since childhood. In his travels, Ghosh has stood on an icy mountaintop on the contested border between India and Pakistan; interviewed Pol Pot’s sister-in-law in Cambodia; shared the elation of Egyptians when Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize; and stood with his threatened Sikh neighbors through the riots following Indira Gandhi’s assassination. In these pieces, he offers an up-close look at an era defined by the ravages of politics and nature. “Ghosh is the perfect chronicler of an increasingly globalized world . . . Reading [him] is a mind-expanding experience. Once you’ve finished this book, you’re very likely to press it into your friends’ hands and beg them to read it as well.” —Sunday Oregonian
Author : 张德明著
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
本书系统考察了其发展历程；对旅行文学涉及的空间想象、帝国崛起、主体意识的形成、近代小说的兴起、现代美学观念的形成，以及跨文化交往与沟通等一系列问题展开探讨，并提出了自己独到的看法；既是一次知识的考古，也是一场精神王国的漫长旅行。
Author : Tabish Khair
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8178241137
This Book Examines Ghosh`S Fiction Through Separate Critical Essays By Reputed Scholars In Six Countries. These Thoughtful, Incisive And Highly Readable Essays Are Grounded In The Interests That Infuse Ghosh`S Fiction: History, Science, Discovery, Travel, Nationalism, Subalternity, Agency. It Is Invaluable For Those Interested In Ghosh`S Work, Prtoviding Ideas And Starting Points For Scholars And Students.
Author : Diana Shipton
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013440269
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994-03-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780679727835
Once upon a time, an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out as an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbors. Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some only imagine, but all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In an Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it does eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell.
Author : Glenn Hooper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351911658
Ranging from the early modern to the postcolonial, and dealing mainly with encounters in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, Perspectives on Travel Writing is a collection of new essays by international scholars that examines some of the various contexts of travel writing, as well as its generic characteristics. Contributions examine the similarities between autobiography and memoir, fiction, and travel writing, and attempt to define travel writing as a genre. Utilising a variety of approaches, the essays display a shared concern with what travel writing does and how it does it. The effects of encounter and border-crossing on gender, 'race', and national identity are considered throughout. The collection begins with a review of some of the problems and issues facing the scholar of travel writing and moves on to a detailed discussion of the qualities of travel writing and its related forms. It then presents in chronological order a number of case studies, before closing with a critical discussion of approaches to the subject. An essay collection with broad historical and geographical coverage, this volume should appeal to students and researchers of travel and travel-related literatures from across the Humanities.