Search for dissertations about: "travel literature"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 65 swedish dissertations containing the words travel literature.
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1. Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa
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
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2. The Second Journey : Travelling in Literary Footsteps
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
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3. An Inquiry into Cultural Semiotics: Germaine de Staël's Autobiographical Travel Accounts
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
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4. The Scandinavian sporting tour : A case study in geographical imagology
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5. The Constitution of Movement in Rudy Wiebe's Fiction : A Phenomenological Study of Three Mennonite Novels
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