Travel and Identity: Studies in Literature, Culture and Language

✍ Scribed by Jakub Lipski, (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 114
• Series: Issues in Literature and Culture
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents a selection of research papers dealing with the notions of travel and identity in Anglophone literature and culture. Collectively, the chapters ponder such notions as self and other, race, centre and periphery, thus shedding new light on a number of issues that are highly relevant in the context of the ongoing migration crisis. The contributors employ a diverse range of theoretical standpoints – from close reading to deconstruction, from historically informed approaches to linguistic analysis – and thus offer a nuanced panorama of these issues, especially from the nineteenth century onwards.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-vii
Travel and Identity: An Introduction (Jakub Lipski)....Pages 1-7
Gentlemen-Scholars in British Travel Writing (Grzegorz Moroz)....Pages 9-19
Harriet Martineau and “The Charmed Sea”: Polish Travel Experience in Siberia (Wojciech Jasiakiewicz)....Pages 21-38
Bringing Their Baggage with Them: An Image of Americans in France ca. 1950 in Richard Yates’ Short Story A Really Good Jazz Piano (Karl Wood)....Pages 39-50
Counterpath to Identity: Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Tymon Adamczewski)....Pages 51-61
The Surveyors of Imagination: Russia in Three British Travel Books (Paweł Schreiber)....Pages 63-74
Images of Destruction in the Autobiographical Novel of Iraqi Writer Haifa Zangana (Agnieszka Graczyk)....Pages 75-84
Oscar Wilde’s Travelling Across Time: In the Wake of the Romantic Heritage, Anticipating Modernism and Postmodernism (Dariusz Pestka)....Pages 85-97
Australian English as a Mirror for National Identity Construction (Waldemar Skrzypczak)....Pages 99-111

✦ Subjects

Contemporary Literature