Search for dissertations about: "travel literature"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 65 swedish dissertations containing the words travel literature.

  2. 1. Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa

    Author : Nicklas Hållen; Heidi Hansson; Stefan Helgesson; Tim Youngs; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel literature; Africa; modernity; materiality; material objects; things; commodity form; commodity culture; postcolonialism; Homi Bhabha; museums; exhibitions; colonialism; geography; space; trade; ethnography; the book; ambivalence; subject-object relations; fetishism; John Speke; Verney Cameron; Henry Stanley; Mary Kingsley; Ewart Grogan; Constance Larymore; Mary Hall; English language; Engelska språket; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Comparative literature; Historia;

    Abstract : This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Second Journey : Travelling in Literary Footsteps

    Author : Maria Lindgren; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel; travel writing; tourism; guide books; authenticity; intertextuality; influence; recognitions; disappointments; images of home; gender roles; heroism; feminisms; biography; autobiography; museums;

    Abstract : In a time dominated by mass tourism and the search for what has been termed authenticity, travel narratives are again of academic interest. This study seeks to demonstrate how travel writers from the 1980s and 1990s increasingly turn to earlier texts for inspiration and guidance. READ MORE

  5. 3. An Inquiry into Cultural Semiotics: Germaine de Staël's Autobiographical Travel Accounts

    Author : Anna Cabak Rédei; Kognitiv semiotik; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Phenomenological sociology; Fenomenologi; Contemporary history circa 1800 to 1914 ; Phenomenology; Humanities; Parisian salons; Humaniora; Fransk litteratur; Germaine de Staël; Cultural semiotics; Autobiographical travel accounts; French literature; Modern historia ca. 1800-1914 ;

    Abstract : Cultural semiotics studies encounters between cultures. Notions such as Culture, Extra-culture and Non-culture were developed in the 1970s by the Tartu school and were used in their studies of Russian culture and its relation to Western Europe, with special focus on Peter the Great's attempt to Westernize Russia in the eighteenth century. READ MORE

  6. 4. The Scandinavian sporting tour : A case study in geographical imagology

    Author : Pia Sillanpää; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; tourism; tourism history; travel; travel writing; Geographical Imagology; image; Jämtland; Tröndelag; Scandinavian; British travellers; fishing; shooting; hunting; sporting gentlemen; imperialism; exploration; Other Germanic languages; Övriga germanska språk;

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  7. 5. The Constitution of Movement in Rudy Wiebe's Fiction : A Phenomenological Study of Three Mennonite Novels

    Author : Malin E. Sigvardson; Harald Fawkner; Magdalene Redekop; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Rudy Wiebe; movement; kinesis; kinaesthesia; directedness; phenomenology; Christianity; Edmund Husserl; Canadian literature; Mennonites; faith; regeneration; eschatology; Peace Shall Destroy Many ; The Blue Mountains of China ; Sweeter Than All the World ; work; migration; corporeality; immobilization; focalization; homelessness; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This study investigates movement as a phenomenon of constituting directedness in the Canadian writer Rudy Wiebe’s Mennonite novels. In Peace Shall Destroy Many (1962), in The Blue Mountains of China (1970), and in Sweeter Than All the World (2001), the phenomenon of movement is complexly at work as a decisive factor on numerous levels of constitution. READ MORE