Metamorphoses of travel writing : across theories, genres, centuries and literary traditions / edited by Grzegorz Moroz and Jolanta Sztachelska.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This book reflects, comments on and adds to a fast growing field of travel writing studies. The twenty-five papers in this volume rely on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches and explore a diverse body of travel writing texts created over the last three hundred years in English, Polish, Hungarian and French. The book is divided into three parts. The first one includes papers which apply the findings of post-structuralism, generic and cultural criticism as well as narratology ...

Machine generated contents note: The Mobile Body: Prolegomena to the Corporeality of Travel / Zbigniew Bialas -- Travel Book as a Genre in the Anglophone Literary Tradition / Grzegorz Moroz -- Travel Narrative as a Tragedy: Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild / Barbara Klonowska -- Sluggish Movements and Solid Illusions of the Modern Road Poem: William Carlos Williams's "Spring and All" and Rosmarie Waldrop's "The Road is Everywhere or Stop This Body" / Paulin Ambrozy-Lis -- "Voyage through Death to Life upon these Shores": The Middle Passage and its Poetic Representations in Robert Hayden's "Middle Passage" and Sonia Sanchez's "Improvisation" / Jerzy Kamionowski -- Travel As a Means of Self-Recognition in the New York School Poems by Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch / Anna Szczepanek-Guz -- Travel Writings of Blaise Cendrars / Agnieszka Wloczewska -- Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad as a Post-Tourist Travelogue / Joanna Dybiec

Note continued: American Travel Books of Charles Dickens and Henryk Sienkiewicz / Aleksandra Budrewicz-Beratan -- Writing with Devotion, Drawing with Light: Images of the Americas in Nineteenth Century Hungarian Travelogues / Balàzs Venkovits -- The Figure of the Writer-Traveller in French Accounts of Journeys to the Orient in the Nineteenth Century / Catherine Robert -- Wandering Poet: Juliusz Slowacki's Journey to the East / Aleksandra Niemirycz -- A Honeymoon as an Educational Journey in The Polaniecki Family by Henryk Sienkiewicz and A Life by Guy de Maupassant / Krystyna Kralkowska-Gqtkowska -- Correlations between Language and Morality in Gulliver's Travels / Rocio G. Sumillera -- Moral Implications of the Journey to the Other World: Henry Fielding's A Journey from This World to the Next / Jakub Lipski -- "The Imprint of the Desert": Space, Time and Self in Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands and Robyn Davidson's Tracks / Malgorzata Rutkowska

Note continued: Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines: Cultural Perspectives / Zdzislaw Glebocki -- The New Memoirs of a Cavalier: Keith Douglas's Alamein to Zem Zem as Travel Literature / Jacek Wiiniewski -- Travel Book as a Form of Intercultural Dialogue: Imperium by Ryszard Kapugchiski / Magdalena Horodecka -- Do We Travel Around the Same World? On Selected Translations of Ryszard Kapugciiiski's Books / Krzysztof Hejwowski -- "Inaccessible Background": Prolegomena to the Studies of Polish Mountaineering Literature / Marek Pacukiewicz -- "Innocents Abroad"? Ghostly Presences, Present Absences and the Quest for the "it" experience: Modern-Day Euro-American Travellers and Their Off-Map Spaces / Julia Szoltysek -- Olga Tokarczuk's Bieguni as a Postmodern Travel Narrative / Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich -- Stereotype as a Vehicle of the Identity of Destination in Practical Travel Literature / Krzysztof Kosecki.

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