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Travelers' writings, Canadian --- Travelers' writings, American --- History and criticism --- Canadian travelers' writings --- Canadian literature --- American travelers' writings --- American literature --- Travelers' writings, Canadian - History and criticism - Congresses --- Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism - Congresses
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An increasingly popular genre – addressing issues of empire, colonialism, post-colonialism, globalization, gender and politics – travel writing offers the reader a movement between the familiar and the unknown. In this volume, Carl Thompson: introduces the genre, outlining competing definitions and key debates; provides a broad historical survey from the medieval period to the present day; explores the autobiographical dimensions of the form; looks at both men and women’s travel writing, surveying a range of canonical and more marginal works, drawn from both the colonial and postcolonial era; utilises both British and American travelogues to consider the genre's role in shaping the history of both nations. Concise and practical, Travel Writing is the ideal introduction for those new to the subject, as well as a crucial overview of current debates in the field.
Fiction --- Thematology --- English literature --- Travel in literature. --- Travel writing --- Travelers' writings --- Travelers' writings, American --- Travelers' writings, English --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Travel in literature --- Voyages and travels in literature --- History and criticism --- History
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Based on travel writings, religious history and literature, this title explores the encounter between English travellers and the Jews. While literary and religious traditions created an image of Jews as untrustworthy, even sinister, travellers came to know them in their many and diverse communities with rich traditions and intriguing life-styles.
English literature --- Thematology --- Jewish religion --- Jews in literature. --- Travelers' writings, English. --- English literature. --- History and criticism.
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Orientalism --- Travelers' writings, European --- Women travelers --- History and criticism --- History --- Orient --- Description and travel
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Travel has often been taken as a metaphor for human life, and the concept of travel and traveller has varied across centuries, cultural traditions, and social groups. Following a diachronic overview of travel writing, this study considers some of the most
Travel writing --- Travelers' writings, Italian --- Travel --- Authorship --- History --- History and criticism.
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Mit Jerusalem sind von jeher Erinnerungen an das Wirken Jesu Christi und Erwartungen an den Jüngsten Tag verknüpft, die die Stadt seit der Spätantike zu einem zentralen Pilgerort für das Christentum gemacht haben. Im Frühmittelalter wuchs der Pilgerstrom nach Jerusalem an, erschwerte Reisebedingungen und zunehmende Endzeiterwartungen ließen ihn jedoch 1095 in den ersten Kreuzzugsaufruf münden. Verena Türk untersucht in ihrer Studie fünf Pilgerberichte europäischer Christen aus der Zeit zwischen der Spätantike und den hochmittelalterlichen Kreuzzügen. Diese Berichte erzählen von Strapazen des Wegs, von Handlungen und Begegnungen, aber auch von Natur und Kultur im Heiligen Land. Sie geben Einblick in das frühmittelalterliche Pilgerwesen mit seinen existentiellen Gefahren und spirituellen Erlebnissen. Und sie zeigen die Pilger als neugierige und interessierte Reisende. Durch einen Vergleich der fünf frühmittelalterlichen Pilgerberichte werden Gemeinsamkeiten, Unterschiede und Charakteristika der dargestellten Pilgerreisen herausgearbeitet und in einen größeren historischen Zusammenhang eingebettet. Auf diese Weise leistet die Studie einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Erforschung der Zeitspanne zwischen dem Beginn des Pilgerwesens und dem Beginn der Kreuzzugsbewegung.
Jérusalem --- Pèlerinages --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Travel, Medieval --- Travelers' writings, European --- Jerusalem --- Jerusalem
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