Travellers in the Mediterranean : linguistic and cultural encounters /
"Spanning a variety of journeys from the nineteenth century to modern times, this collection of essays offers important insights into cultural encounters, practices and perceptions, as American, Arab, British and French travellers experienced and still experience them in the Mediterranean, and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Laussane ; New York :
Peter Lang,
[2024]
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| Series: | Testi mobili ;
vol. 11. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface. Charting the Mediterranean : journeys, narratives, cultural dialogues / Emanuela Ettorre and Guiliano Mion
- Navigating identity and exile : George Gissing's voyage to Greece / Emanuela Ettorre
- "The pleasure of travel is in the fancy" : cruising the Mediterranean in the American imagination, 1853-1909 / Carlo Martinez
- Victorian travellers on the Nile : Marianne Brocklehurst, Mary Booth, and Egypt's "Eastern spectacle" / Adrian Tait
- Re-imagining the Mediterranean : Vita Sackville West's fictional excursions in Challenge (1924) / Silvia Antosa
- Patrick Leigh Fermor's Mani. Travels in the southern Peloponnese : the earthly frontier of the modern imagination / Paola Partenza
- Neologisms, wordplays, and pastiche in the Italian Cycle of Tristan Corbière's Amours Jaunes / Lorella Martinelli
- Metaphors of ecotourism : the use of figurative language in the promotion of ecotourism activities in the Mediterranean / Lorenzo Buonvivere
- The representation of Sicily in tourism discourse / Antonio Gurrieri
- Western travellers of the 19th and the 20th centuries encounter the Bedouins : a general overview / Miriam Al Tawil
- TounsiaDigordia by Hiba Boujnah : digital travelogue of a Mediterranean journey / Elisa Gugliotta.