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"The Modernist Traveler considers figures whose writing about travel rebelled against a literary tradition of exoticism, adventure stories, and novelistic travelogues. Instead these writers initiated a modernist strain in travel writing and a shift in the literary establishment and the culture at large. Kimberley J. Healy focuses on those French writers and thinkers who traveled in order to experience a displacement of both the inner self and the physical body while writing against the prevalent tradition of travel literature." "The modern self, modern time, colonial spaces, and the physical body are Healey's concerns as she reads works by Victor Segalen, Paul Morand, Blaise Cendrars, Henri Michaux, Saint-John Perse, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Nizan, Albert Londres, Andre Malraux, Valery Larbaud, and Isabelle Eberhardt. This book shows how, in the field of French literature, these texts about travel best capture the modernist experience of being alone in a world of new technologies, cultural diversity, and anxiety about the self."--Jacket.

Literature and society --- Travelers' writings, French. --- French --- French travelers' writings --- French literature --- Frenchmen (French people) --- Ethnology --- History --- Travel

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This volume offers a fresh and timely 'European' perspective on Wales and Welshness. Uncovering rare travel texts in French and German from 1780 to now it provides a valuable case-study of a culture that is often minoritised, and demonstrates the value of multilingual research and a transnational approach.

Travelers' writings, French --- Travelers' writings, German --- Travelers --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Wales --- Wales --- Description and travel. --- In literature.

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Les articles réunis dans ce livre constituent une invitation au voyage, tout d'abord dans l'Espagne du XVIIIe siècle, si mal connue des Français, une Espagne engagée dans un effort de régénération dont les ilustrados sont les principaux artisans. L'action de ces hommes, leurs rêves aussi, ont été affectés par la Révolution qui les surprend, les inquiète et les indigne même, quand elle se fait plus violente, si l'on en croit la majorité des témoignages accessibles, les réactions favorables étant beaucoup plus difficiles à déceler. On entre ensuite dans l'Espagne du XIXe siècle, à la suite des nombreux voyageurs qui franchissent alors les Pyrénées pour découvrir une nation auréolée de tous les attraits de l'exotisme. De leurs récits naîtra l'image de « l’Espagne romantique », un cliché soumis ici à un minutieux examen. Le voyage que l'on effectue en compagnie de Jean-René Aymes se fait sans courir la poste : il s'agit de voir des êtres et des choses, d'observer des phénomènes, d'analyser pour comprendre, en s'aidant, au besoin, de la comparaison ou de l'interaction des regards croisés. Un voyage instructif, assurément, mais jamais ennuyeux en raison de l'alacrité de la pensée et de la plume.

Romanticism --- Romantisme --- Spain --- France --- Espagne --- Description and travel --- History --- Foreign public opinion, Spanish --- Descriptions et voyages --- Histoire --- Opinion publique espagnole --- French --- Travelers' writings, French --- French travelers' writings --- French literature --- Frenchmen (French people) --- Ethnology --- Travel&delete& --- Description and travel. --- French (Nation) --- 19th century --- Authors [French ] --- Biography --- Social conditions --- Revolution, 1789-1799 --- Influence --- Foreign public opinion, Spanish. --- Travel --- Travelers' writings, French. --- History. --- Révolution française --- XIXème siècle --- voyage --- XVIIIème siècle --- romantisme

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La lettre est naturellement vouée au voyage. Elle doit parcourir l’espace pour atteindre son destinataire avec tous les aléas du transport. Le voyage stimule l’activité épistolaire, donnant à la lettre une forme et des contenus bien spécifiques qui permettent de considérer la lettre de voyage comme un sous-genre particulièrement important de l’écriture épistolaire. Ce colloque entend revenir sur les conventions spécifiques de la lettre de voyage qui obéit à des codes implicites liés aux attentes du lecteur mais les transgresse aussi. La lettre de voyage satisfait à la fois des appétits de romanesque, d’aventure, d’exotisme. La description, morceau de bravoure ou brèves notations, semble un élément incontournable. Mais si elle s’épanouit dans les correspondances romantiques, elle est ensuite remise en question par les épistoliers fin de siècle qui ne veulent plus pratiquer que le voyage intérieur. Les impressions de voyage, euphorie de la découverte ou mal du pays, ramènent la lettre de voyage à sa dimension d’écriture de l’intime, de miroir de l’âme. La lettre est un creuset souple qui favorise la diversité des approches. Elle n’est pas seulement regard mais aussi réflexion sur le monde et elle est alors dotée d’une importante dimension idéologique. La lettre voyage par le monde mais elle circule aussi à travers les textes, à travers les œuvres. La lettre de voyage nourrit les articles d’écrivains journalistes, elle est matériau des œuvres littéraires, elle accède parfois, elle-même, au statut de véritable œuvre d’art.

Travelers' writings, French --- Travelers --- French letters --- Authors, French --- Ecrits de voyageurs français --- Voyageurs --- Lettres (Genre littéraire) françaises --- Ecrivains français --- History and criticism --- Congresses --- Correspondence --- Travel --- Histoire et critique --- Congrès --- Correspondance --- Voyages --- Ecrits de voyageurs français --- Lettres (Genre littéraire) françaises --- Ecrivains français --- Congrès --- Literature (General) --- voyage --- correspondance --- récit de voyage --- littérature française --- histoire

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Travel narratives were the principal source of knowledge about the lands of the Near East and the Indian Ocean Basin in 17th-century France. Claiming the authority of first-hand observation, they paradoxically rely for their legitimization on the tropes of an established literary tradition. The status of these texts remained ambiguous, not least because of their anecdotal depictions of great riches, brutality or sexual promise. Drawing on the insights of post-colonial scholarship, this study tackles a question given scant attention in previous work and suggests that beyond the hazy representation of the Orient, an opposition emerges between the threatening Near East and the indolent East Indies. Distinguishing recognizable representations from those generated by new encounters, this book questions the feasibility of cultural representation through travel, exploring a large corpus of original sources written by French ecclesiastics, gentlemen-travellers, ambassadors and adventurers. Linguistic, religious, cultural or geographical barriers meant most travellers remained distanced from the peoples about whom they would simultaneously become authoritative. The encounter was further transformed in narratives that were intended to entertain and to satisfy the criterion of curiosité . The ‘Oriental’ that emerges is a supremely variable entity, alternately naked or veiled, barbaric or civilized, menacing or attractive.

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