Format:
131 Seiten
ISBN:
9781032437071
,
9781032437088
Series Statement:
Routledge research in travel writing
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 Belated Explorers -- "They Had Walked Beside Us": In Shackleton's Footsteps -- "An Exercise Without Point Or Reward": In the Footsteps of Scott -- Notes -- 2 Echotourists and Anti-Tourism -- "Things Got Silly": Darwin Slept Here -- A "Fathomless Gulf": Walking the Woods and the Water -- Notes -- 3 Echotourism and Masculinity -- "Facing Down the Congo": Blood River -- "A Stone in My Shoe": Chasing the Devil -- Notes -- 4 Echotourism and Women Writers -- Cruelty's "Bronze Glow": In Byron's Footsteps -- "Skimming Over the Surface": One Dry Season -- Notes -- 5 Echotourism and Postmodernism -- "Besmirching the Monument": Blue Latitudes -- Travels With Avatar John: American Interior -- Notes -- Conclusion: Echotourism and Middlebrow Culture -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
"Travel Writing and Re-Enactment: Echotourism explores the popular subgenre of travel narratives that re-enact historically prominent journeys. Drawing on philosopher Walter Benjamin, this monograph reads such re-enactments as quests for aura in which travellers seek to capture a sense of distinction and historical profundity. Travel Writing and Re-Enactment frames the re-enactment of past journeys in a number of contexts, including Benjamin's writing on mechanical reproduction, Judith Butler's work on gender performance, and postmodern parody. Echotourist journeys are surprisingly contingent and precarious, and force travellers to navigate historical changes involving empire, gender, and travel practice in densely performative ways. Through close readings of contemporary travel narratives this monograph considers the legacies of Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, Graham Greene, Mary Kingsley, and Ernest Shackleton, among others. Travel Writing and Re-Enactment examines the way literary re-enactment expresses, and sometimes confounds, the desire to find meaning through travel in the contemporary world"--
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9781003368526
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
American Studies
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Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
,
English Studies
Keywords:
Reiseliteratur
;
Reisebericht
;
Reise
;
Wiederholung
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Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940 Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit
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Englisch
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Reiseliteratur
;
Berühmte Persönlichkeit
;
Nachahmung
DOI:
10.4324/9781003368526
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