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Author |
: Dimitrios Kassis |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 110 |
Release |
: 2021-11-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781527577053 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1527577058 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dystopian Depictions of Serbia in British Travel Literature by : Dimitrios Kassis
Without any doubt, one of the European regions that has never ceased to trouble the Westerner traveller is the Balkan Peninsula, which functioned as a terra incognita within the British travel canon, and served as the transit point to the Ottoman Empire or the Old Grecian world. At a time when Anglo-Saxonism occupied a prevalent position in British political discourse, the Balkan Peninsula came to epitomise all the negative qualities of the Orient that British travellers were anxious to apply to alien countries that were far removed from the nation-building agenda of the Empire. As such, classified as the fringe of the Orient, Serbia was persistently depicted as a politically unstable region, inhabited by primitive ethnic groups that could possibly threaten the viability of the British imperialist interests in European Turkey. In the light of the Serbian national struggle to promote the idea of a South-Slavic Union or forge an identity against the Austrian and Ottoman Empires, some British travellers undertook a journey to all the Balkan states where Serbians formed the majority of the population to demonise the War of Liberation of the Balkan states against the Ottoman yoke, treating it as visible evidence of Russian Expansionism. This book concentrates on dystopian British imagology of Serbia as a travel destination, including travel accounts produced from 1717 until 1911, a year prior to the outbreak of the First World War. The travel texts incorporated into this volume shed light on all the conceptualisations of the Balkans, addressing the sociopolitical conditions that sparked the national awakening of Serbia.
Author |
: Dimitrios Kassis |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 112 |
Release |
: 2022-11-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781527591073 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1527591077 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Glimpses of the Bulgarian Other in British Travel Literature by : Dimitrios Kassis
Until its emancipation from the Ottoman yoke, Bulgaria always occupied an unprivileged and unfavourable position in British imagination, from the very first mention of the country in Western travelogues. However, since the late eighteenth century, the Bulgarian nation has been subjected to the scrutiny of the British traveller owing to its proximity to other nations whose national struggles received more prominence, and consequently overshadowed the Bulgarians’ National Renaissance, such as Serbia and Greece. This volume concerns all the depictions of Bulgaria as a dystopian land from the eighteenth century until the country’s emergence as an important military power after its Liberation movement in 1878. In these travel narratives, the notion of the Bulgarian nationhood is described as an antithesis to idea of the civilised British, but also as a threat to the stability of the Ottoman Empire. With the rapid decline of the latter, from a mere Ottoman province, Bulgaria gradually transforms into a nation whose National Revival efforts come to the fore to question the British and Ottoman depictions of the Bulgarian nation as subaltern and uncultivated.
Author |
: Dimitrios Kassis |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 154 |
Release |
: 2023-10-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781527552296 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1527552292 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Highland Tour of Victorian Travel Writing by : Dimitrios Kassis
During the first quarter of the eighteenth century, Scotland was persistently viewed as a peripheral region, inhabited by savage Highlanders, epitomising the sublime and the grotesque as well as the distance of the Scottish Other from civilised Europe. However, the rediscovery of the Ossianic tradition, the Scottish link to the Norman invasion and the increasing appeal of Scottish historical narratives to the average Victorian set the pattern for the reconstruction of a literary utopia. Facing the risk of racial segregation due to their Celtic background, a significant number of Scottish writers and theorists succumbed to the rising Anglo-Saxonism, seeking every means to prove their Anglo-Saxon background at the expense of their Celtic roots. This volume includes a set of travel narratives and essays on Scotland, covering a period of more than two centuries (1722-1907). The travellers who flocked to Scotland were either driven by literary aspirations, or were on a mission to explore the country’s wild inhabitants, the Highlanders. In their attempt to define Scottish identity in accordance with the cultural, ideological and political standards of the English, Scottish and American travel writers often adhered to the Othering of the Scottish people, promoting images of backwardness and the sublime.
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: |
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Total Pages |
: 2426 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000057121345 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by :
Author |
: Ursula K. Le Guin |
Publisher |
: Turtleback Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0785764038 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780785764038 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dispossessed by : Ursula K. Le Guin
A brilliant physicist attempts to salvage his planet of anarchy.
Author |
: Stacy Burton |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107039315 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107039312 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Travel Narrative and the Ends of Modernity by : Stacy Burton
Combining theoretical arguments with close reading, this text traces how twentieth-century writers have reinvented travel narrative for new purposes.
Author |
: Lawrence Durrell |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2021-06-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0571362435 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780571362431 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis White Eagles Over Serbia by : Lawrence Durrell
Author |
: Tariq Zaidi |
Publisher |
: Gost Books |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 2022-04-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1910401633 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781910401637 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sin Salida by : Tariq Zaidi
Sin Salida' ('No Way Out') by photographer Tariq Zaidi documents the impacts of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang (MS-13) and its rival Barrio 18 gang members on El Salvador. By depicting the gang members, police, prisons, murder sites, funerals, and the government?s war against the gangs, Zaidi illustrates the control the gangs have over the wider Salvadoran society, the violence through which they operate and the grief and loss resulting from the violence.
Author |
: Asa Simon Mittman |
Publisher |
: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 086698481X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780866984812 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Synopsis Inconceivable Beasts by : Asa Simon Mittman
Bound with Beowulf, the Old English Wonders of the East, a catalogue of marvelous beings, describes the very creatures it depicts as ungefraegelicu (unheard of, inconceivable). Insistently, these representations, both visual and textual, provoke questions about the nature and possibility of representation itself. In doing so, they also destabilize the notion of scholarship as being able to provide final, concrete meanings, even as they suggest the possibility for other ways of approaching meanings, including the question of what it meant-and means-to be a monster, and thus to be human. Containing the first color facsimile of the Wonders, transcription, translation and extensive commentary, this volume should be of interest to students and scholars of Old English literature, Anglo-Saxon art, and monster studies. Book jacket.
Author |
: Nina George |
Publisher |
: Ballantine Books |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 2015-06-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780553418781 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0553418785 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Little Paris Bookshop by : Nina George
Monsieur Perdu can prescribe the perfect book for a broken heart. But can he fix his own? Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened. After Perdu is finally tempted to read the letter, he hauls anchor and departs on a mission to the south of France, hoping to make peace with his loss and discover the end of the story. Joined by a bestselling but blocked author and a lovelorn Italian chef, Perdu travels along the country’s rivers, dispensing his wisdom and his books, showing that the literary world can take the human soul on a journey to heal itself. Internationally bestselling and filled with warmth and adventure, The Little Paris Bookshop is a love letter to books, meant for anyone who believes in the power of stories to shape people's lives.