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1 online resource (275 pages) |
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Routledge Research in Travel Writing |
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Routledge research in travel writing.
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Ethics on the Move; 1 Speech Acts: Language, Mobility and Place; 2 From Legislative to Interpretive Modes of Travel: Space, Ethics, and Literary Form in Jean Baudrillard's America; 3 Fiction and Affect: Anglophone Travel Writing and the Case of Paraguay; 4 Terror; 5 Victor Segalen in the Contact Zone: Exoticism, Ethics, and the Traveler and "Travelee"; 6 Ethical Encounters with Animal Others in Travel Writing; 7 Cultural Sustainability and Postcolonial Island Literatures; 8 Gourdes and Dollars: How Travel Writers Spend Money |
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9 Writing across the Native/Foreign Divide: The Case of Kapka Kassabova's Street Without a Name10 "Like a Member of a Free Nation, He Wrote Without Shame": Foreign Travelers as a Trope in Romanian Cultural Tradition; 11 Travelling the Times of Empire; 12 The Rhetorics of Arctic Discourse: Reading Gretel Ehrlich's This Cold Heaven in Class; 13 Hauntings: W.G. Sebald as Travel Writer; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Travelers' writings -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Travel writing -- History
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Literature and morals.
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Postcolonialism -- Social aspects
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Literature and morals
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Postcolonialism -- Social aspects
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Travel writing
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Forsdick, Charles
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Kostova, Ludmilla
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| ISBN |
9781135019341 |
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1135019347 |
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