Description:The present volume looks at the relation between travel writing and cultural memory from a variety of perspectives, ranging from theoretical concerns with genres and conventions to detailed analyses of single texts. As befits the topic, the contributions roam far and wide, both geographically and historically. Some detail early Portuguese voyages of discovery, particularly to the East. Others depict encounters between Early, and not so early, Modern Western travelers and their "Other" interlocutors. Still others focus on travel writings as literature. Voyages and voyaging in literature form the subject of the last category of essays gathered here.Amongst the authors discussed are FernÃo Mendes Pinto, Jean de Sponde, Furtado de Mendonça, Sor Juana InÉz de la Cruz, Elsa Morante, Ingeborg Bachmann, Sophia Andresen, Paul Claudel, Graham Greene, ValÉry Larbaud, David MourÃo-Ferreira, J.M.G. le ClÉzio, JosÉ Saramago, Michel Leiris, and Claude LÉvi-Strauss. The volume concludes with an essay by the French-Lebanese author Salah StÉtiÉ.Maria Alzira Seixo is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Lisbon, Portugal.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Travel Writing and Cultural Memory = Ecriture Du Voyage Et Memoire Culturelle. To get started finding Travel Writing and Cultural Memory = Ecriture Du Voyage Et Memoire Culturelle, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Travel Writing and Cultural Memory = Ecriture Du Voyage Et Memoire Culturelle
Description: The present volume looks at the relation between travel writing and cultural memory from a variety of perspectives, ranging from theoretical concerns with genres and conventions to detailed analyses of single texts. As befits the topic, the contributions roam far and wide, both geographically and historically. Some detail early Portuguese voyages of discovery, particularly to the East. Others depict encounters between Early, and not so early, Modern Western travelers and their "Other" interlocutors. Still others focus on travel writings as literature. Voyages and voyaging in literature form the subject of the last category of essays gathered here.Amongst the authors discussed are FernÃo Mendes Pinto, Jean de Sponde, Furtado de Mendonça, Sor Juana InÉz de la Cruz, Elsa Morante, Ingeborg Bachmann, Sophia Andresen, Paul Claudel, Graham Greene, ValÉry Larbaud, David MourÃo-Ferreira, J.M.G. le ClÉzio, JosÉ Saramago, Michel Leiris, and Claude LÉvi-Strauss. The volume concludes with an essay by the French-Lebanese author Salah StÉtiÉ.Maria Alzira Seixo is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Lisbon, Portugal.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Travel Writing and Cultural Memory = Ecriture Du Voyage Et Memoire Culturelle. To get started finding Travel Writing and Cultural Memory = Ecriture Du Voyage Et Memoire Culturelle, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.