Spanning a variety of journeys from the nineteenth century to modern times, this collection of essays o ers important insights into cultural encounters, practices and perceptions, as American, Arab, British and French travellers experienced and still experience them in the Mediterranean, and in countries such as Greece, Italy, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. Through an investigation of travelogues, diaries, letters, novels, poems, tourist guides, and blogs, the authors of this collection navigate the intricate relationship between Self and Other. In so doing, they contribute to a wider understanding of travel – and of writing about travel – in mediating cultural exchange, while shedding light on the major challenges posed by issues of stereotyping and socio-cultural bias.
Series edited by:
Ugo Perolino,
Natalie Dupré,
Monica Jansen,
Inge Lanslots,
Mara Santi
Imprint: PIE - Peter Lang
Country of Publication: Belgium
Edition: New edition
Volume: 11
Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 148mm,
Weight: 257g
ISBN: 9782807612341
ISBN 10: 2807612342
Series: Moving Texts / Testi mobili
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 27 November 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Emanuela Ettorre / Giuliano Mion : Preface. Charting the Mediterranean: Journeys, Narratives, Cultural Dialogues — Emanuela Ettorre : Navigating Identity and Exile: George Gissing’s Voyage to Greece — Carlo Martinez : “The pleasure of travel is in the fancy”: Cruising the Mediterranean in the American Imagination, 1853– 1909 — Adrian Tait : Victorian Travellers on the Nile: Marianne Brocklehurst, Mary Booth, and Egypt’s “Eastern spectacle” — Silvia Antosa : Re- Imagining the Mediterranean: Vita Sackville West’s Fictional Excursions in Challenge (1924) — Paola Partenza : Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Mani. Travels in the Southern Peloponnese: The Earthly Frontier of the Modern Imagination — Lorella Martinelli : Neologisms, Wordplays, and Pastiche in the Italian Cycle of Tristan Corbière’s Amours Jaunes — Lorenzo Buonvivere : Metaphors of Ecotourism: The Use of Figurative Language in the Promotion of Ecotourism Activities in the Mediterranean — Antonio Gurrieri : The Representation of Sicily in Tourism Discourse — Miriam Al Tawil : Western Travellers of the 19th and the 20th Centuries Encounter the Bedouins: A General Overview —Elisa Gugliotta : TounsiaDigordia by Hiba Boujnah: Digital Travelogue of a Mediterranean Journey
Emanuela Ettorre is an Associate Professor of English at “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara. She has published on nineteenth-century literature, animal studies, women’s travel writing and the relationship between science and literature. She has translated several volumes of Victorian ction by George Gissing, Thomas Hardy and Hubert Crackanthorpe. Giuliano Mion is a Full Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Cagliari, where he teaches Arabic language, Arabic literature and Semitic linguistics. Specializing in linguistics and dialectology, he has authored numerous publications on Standard Arabic, Middle Arabic, Arabic phonetics, Jordanian sociolinguistics, Tunisian dialects, and popular culture.
