scholarly journals The Greek Voyage

Perceptions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Panagiotis Tzumakaris
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Greek Life ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
Travel Writers ◽  
Early English ◽  
Intensive Course ◽  
Classical Knowledge ◽  
Of Greece

During the spring semester of 2018, I took History 4497, a writing intensive course with an emphasis on European travel writing. My research focused on English travel writers of the late 16th and early 17th centuries voyaging to Greece. In my analysis, I examine the interactions early English travel writers experienced with the peoples of Greece. These interactions not only allow for an interesting first-hand insight of Greek life but provide reflections of the authors and their culture. Major themes discussed in my analysis include the anti-Greek bias, civilization versus barbarism, and non-elitist perception. I came to the conclusion that while formally-educated English travel writers’ perceptions of Greece were influenced greatly by the negative biases of their teachings, Thomas Dallam, an English organ-builder with no classical knowledge nor formal education, experienced his Greek voyage with a radically different perspective.

Picturesque Burma: British Travel Writing 1890–1914

2004 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Keck
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Effective Resistance ◽  
The Third ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Travel Writers

With the end of effective resistance to British rule after the Third Anglo-Burmese War, Burma experienced significant economic growth, which led to larger numbers of foreign travellers going there. This article traces the publications of three travel writers – Mrs Ernst (Alice) Hart, R. Talbot Kelley and V. C. Scott O'Connor – by investigating the ways in which they relied on the concept of ‘picturesque’ to understand Burmese landscapes.

scholarly journals The Value of Social Pedagogical Volunteerism in the Midst of the Greek Economic Crisis: The Example of Voluntary Caring for Patients in the Hospitals (EDANI)

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasileios Kontogiannis
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Greek Life ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
The Media ◽  
Education Support ◽  
Of Greece

Caring for common affairs and unconditional service are connected with Greek life and culture and closely related to religious duty and piousness. In the difficult days of the economical crisis and recession, offers for organized volunteering have culminated. The Voluntary Caring for Patients (EDANI), is both an organized ecclesiastical activity which wonderfully reclaims scientific knowledge and a model of education, support, supervision and distribution of volunteers. Along with the crisis, the effort has been more thoroughly organized and based on self-devotion, love for the other, social and spiritual sensitivity, EDANI manages to maintain a stable number of volunteers and to multiply its offer to nursing institutions in quality and quantity. It has well-trained and supportive volunteers taking care of patients (adults and children) who have no family environment to support them. In fact, EDANI is conducting social pedagogical work. Its strong social pedagogical character is demonstrated through: a) its sensitivity and interest in vulnerable groups of people, which is transformed into actual and systematic action; b) the pursuit to enable people to have a better quality of life, which we consider a duty; c) the development of volunteering action, which begins with the intention of an unconditional service and continues with meeting the needs of people who go through a bad situation; d) seeking personal strengthening and involvement of the patients and the volunteers; and e) finally, the vision of well-being for all people. The media, the volunteers themselves as well as the structure of the Orthodox Church of Greece have played an important role in bringing out this social pedagogical character of EDANI and have contributed to its success. During this period of crisis the Orthodox Church of Greece is promoting the spiritual character of the voluntary offer, organizing the distribution of material, time and money in order to sufficiently support people in need in our country, and has engaged in important religious and social pedagogical work for many years now.

Sectarian Mysticism and Spiritual Power

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-146
Author(s):  
Marilyn J. Westerkamp
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Spiritual Power ◽  
Conversion Experience ◽  
Female Spirituality ◽  
Early English

This chapter explores the religious culture of Puritanism. Beginning with the amorphous, pluralistic character of early English dissenters, the chapter discusses the problem of establishing orthodoxy in Massachusetts, particularly the issues central to the Hutchinsonian crisis: sanctification as evidence of election, the conversion experience as evidence, and preparationism. From here the chapter considers the gendering of Puritan religiosity through the privileging of formal education and the rationalist preparation for grace and examines the construction of female spirituality as grounded in biology. The perceptions of woman as weak and woman as evil are developed in great detail. The chapter then places Puritan theologians’ understanding of women within a reconsideration of Puritans’ construction of sin, salvation, and election. It returns to conversion as a mystical experience available to all regardless of rank or gender, thus fostering a radical egalitarianism.

“Spellbinding Portugal: Two British Women’s Travel Voices”

2018 ◽  
pp. 295-312
Author(s):  
Maria Zulmira Castanheira
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Travel Writers ◽  
Women's Travel ◽  
The Way

A genre prone to the thematization of cultural difference, travel writing has, in recent decades, attracted great attention within the area of the Social Sciences and Humanities and gained the respect of both academics and critics. Travel writers are mediator fgures who, through their literary constructs, resulting from their experience of mobility and confrontation with alterity, may shape and circulate positive ideas about foreign cultural realities, thus facilitating openness to difference, empathy, acceptance, understanding, admiration. This article analyses Sybille Bedford’s and Brigid Brophy’s representation of Portugal, paying attention to the authors’ focus on the natural and built landscapes and the way they seek out what they considered to be unique to this Iberian country, thus promoting an image of it as a spellbinding place, charming and exotic, worth the journey.

Making something of it: Questions of value in the early English travel collection

2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Early English ◽  
Richard Hakluyt

AbstractIn the second half of the sixteenth century, experiences and narratives of English travel to distant places first began to matter enough to be collected and published. Tracing early accounts of West Africa and Muscovy through the several collections of Richard Eden (1553, 1555) and Richard Hakluyt (1589, 1600) allows for comparison of how different editors handled the same materials at different moments. The evidence suggests that both editors differentiated between the African and Russian materials according to perceptions of these materials' value, or meaning, for their own collecting and publishing projects. Looking at how this was so, and considering why it was so, provides a closer and more detailed look at how travel writing acquired value in the context of print; it also offers an an approach to the larger question of how Englishmen "read" the places and cultures they encountered, actually or virtually, outside of Europe.

scholarly journals The Representation of Francoist Spain by Two British Women Travel Writers

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-27
Author(s):  
Maureen Mulligan
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Home Market ◽  
Foreign Culture ◽  
Linguistic Strategies ◽  
Travel Writers ◽  
Post War ◽  
Women's Travel ◽  
The Way

Abstract This article offers a discussion of two books by British women which describe travels in Spain during the post-war period, that is, during the dictatorship of General Franco. The aim is to analyse how Spanish culture and society are represented in these texts, and to what extent the authors engage with questions of the ethics of travelling to Spain in this period. Two different forms of travel - by car, and by horse - also influence the way the travellers can connect with local people; and the individual’s interest in Spain as a historical site, or as a timeless escape from industrial northern Europe, similarly affect the focus of the accounts. The global politics of travel writing, and the distinction between colonial and cosmopolitan travel writers, are important elements in our understanding of the way a foreign culture is articulated for the home market. Women’s travel writing also has its own discursive history which we consider briefly. In conclusion, texts involve common discursive and linguistic strategies which have to negotiate the specificity of an individual’s travels in a particular time and place. The authors and books referred to are Rose Macaulay’s Fabled Shore: From the Pyrenees to Portugal (1949) and Penelope Chetwode’s Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalusia (1963).

scholarly journals Cultural Migrations in France and Italy: Travel Literature from Translation to Genre

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-72
Author(s):  
Paola Daniela Smecca
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Cultural Perceptions ◽  
Travel Writers ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

Abstract This is a study on the role played by translations in the establishment of travel writing as a literary genre in Italy and partly in France. In fact, through translations, this heterogeneous production eventually defined its own characteristics and norms. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries most works were known to the Italian public through their French versions, often full of interpolations altering the original standpoints of the authors. As a consequence, the content of the texts and the cultural perceptions of travel writers ran the risk of being deeply modified and detached from the reality of the country visited.

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