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Travels from the Orient, Travels to the Orient: Does Comparison Make Sense?

Gruber / Strohmeyer, On the Way to the "(Un)Known"?, 2022

Lookinga tt he development of studies of travel writinga nd travel accounts through recent decades one can distinguish between three different stages: to begin with, and actually starting with the very first collections and bibliographies of travel accounts from the late eighteenth century onwards,t he texts werep rimarilya ppreciateda sg oldmines of informationa bout the continents, countries,s ocieties, and cultures described by the manyd ifferent pilgrims, explorers,s cholars, and tourists.F rom the 1980s onwards,a nd duen ot least to the influenceo fM ichel Foucault and of EdwardW .S aid's Orientalism¹ many of the same texts werec riticized and valued as sources for ab etter understanding of the travelers' own prejudices and imperial gaze,cultures, and mentalities and thoseo ft heira udience and readers. Through the lastcouple of decades, however,itseems as if we have entered yeta nother stage: awhole wave of studies aiming at presentingt ravela ccounts as sources for global, transnational, entangled, and connected histories (Verflechtungsgeschichte and histoire croisée), and history of knowledge (Wissensgeschichte). To some extent,these turns and programmatic calls have come about as ac ritical prolongation of the postcolonial studies of the final decades of the twentieth century,but realizingthatitmight not be enough to blame the West for its images and knowledge of "the Rest" has led manyt oabetter understanding of how travel accounts can be read not necessarilyasr eflections of an either/or approach, but as expressions of the interactive and multidimensional productivity of the encounters. When the contextual complexities and knowledge effects at both ends, at destinations as well as points of departure and return, have to be taken into account,the more interesting studies tend to concentrate on one travel account or one traveler at the time. Previously, studies of largera rrayso ft ravela ccountsthose to the Orient or the New World, or those of French, British, Italian, or German travelers for example-werefairlycommon. Today, such comparative studies certainlystill continue to be published,but new insights seem rather to come from studies of single and perhaps also less well-known travelersa nd travel accounts.

The Complete Essays and Writings of Rudolph C. Klein (Thus Far)

Unit I -- Academia: Chapter 1: Beowulf: A View of Civilization ............... 1:5 Chapter 2: A Timeless Classic: Canturbury Tales ....... 2:6 Chapter 3: Macbeth ................ 3:8 Chapter 4: Machiavelli: A view of leadership ........... 4:10 Footnotes to Machiavelli: A View of Leadership ...... 4:12 Chapter 5: The New Land .............. 5:12 Chapter 6: A Point of Agreement ...... 6:13 Chapter 7: Puritanism in Literature.............. 7:14 Chapter 8: Nathaniel Hawthorne: Trust in Others ..... 8:17 Chapter 9: A Melting Pot or Salad Bowl? ....... 9:18 Chapter 10: A biographical sketch of Edgar Allan Poe ....... 10:19 Chapter 11: New Romanticism ........ 11:20 Chapter 12: Two Views of Death .............. 12:22 Chapter 13: Stephen Crane: An analysis ....... 13:23 Chapter 14: Leggatt: An Unusual Secret ....... 14:27 Chapter 15: A biographical sketch of Abraham Stoker ...... 15:27 Chapter 16: Allan Sillitoe: A View of an Individual ............. 16:28 Chapter 17: Barbara Tuchman: Revolutions ............ 17:32 Unit II -- Fiction: Chapter 18: The Briefcase ........... 18:33 Chapter 19: The Chaser ............... 19:35 Chapter 20: IQ Day: The Story ........ 20:36 Chapter 21: The Haunted House ...... 21:37 Chapter 22: The Ditcher............... 22:39 Chapter 23: The Problem ............. 23:40 Chapter 24: The Empty Room ......... 24:41 Chapter 25: The Greatest Singer in the World......... 25:41 Chapter 26: Graduation ...... 26:42 Chapter 27: Risk ................ 27:43 Chapter 28: Boy King Get Coroneted ........ 28:44 Chapter 29: Releasing It............... 29:44

Spatial relations speak the language of social hierarchy

In 2000 Czech dissident artist Milan Kohout and American videographer and performance artist David Franklin collaborated on the performance Flying and Flowing: Horizontal and Vertical at Mobius, an experimental art centre in Boston. Kohout brought his experience of living in the collectivist socialist society of Czechoslovakia to the individualistic context of the U.S. Under Communism, since the government controlled all media, dissident actions were based on a horizontal system of communication among members of society. People insured the 'underground' flow of information themselves and thus information was spread horizontally among people, rather than via media placed 'above' them. Franklin, whose video and performance work deals with somatic aspects of the submersion and subversion of the desire for political upheaval, also worked as a cameraman and producer in two of the most remote media channels: film and television news, in which communication is oriented vertically in a system composed of individual information 'droplets.' Bringing their experiences together to collaborate on Flying and Flowing, Kohout and Franklin contrasted horizontal and vertical geometrical forms in scenography, lighting, and physicality to accompany a series of narrative vignettes. Thus all the components -the visual forms, somatic embodiments, video projections and content of the texts were based on the tensions between vertical and horizontal, each representing differing socio-political power relationships and modes of communication. For example, in one episode of the performance Kohout and Franklin play a dominant-positioning game with an eight-foot long stick held in their mouths. Ironically, the same stick that connects them also forces them to occupy differing orientations in the horizontal-vertical power relationship, and simultaneously distorts their verbal communication such that they are able to negotiate a only a slapstick solution to their dilemma.

Cultural politics in contemporary travel writing

Annals of Tourism Research, 2006

This study analyzes travel writing in terms of the relevant textual features contributing to intercultural communication representations in such stories. A textual analysis of the best-selling series The Best American Travel Writing 2001 was conducted. Findings suggest that ''best'' describes intercultural communication as mostly occurring when authors seek to expound upon their immediate needs and experiences. Moreover, this analysis suggests that representations rely on frequent comparisons between the host and American societies, as well as on patriarchal discourses where a normative masculinity is poised against a constructed femininity. The sociocultural significance and implications of the findings are discussed by situating travel stories within a wider discussion regarding American ideology.