‘Coi libri o col mondo?’

‘With books or with the world?’ Alienation effects without disorientation in Viaggio e maravigliose avventure d’un veneziano by Francesco Contarini This paper investigates the forms and effects of displacement in Viaggio e maravigliose avventure d’un veneziano ch’esce per la prima volta dalle lagune e si reca a Padova e a Milano, published anonymously in Milan in 1818. According to Luigi Catucci, the author is Francesco Contarini, who translated many travel books for the editor Sonzogno between 1816 and 1817: this would explain the noticeable intertextual dialogue between the Viaggio and other travel writings, both fictional and non-fictional. Some allusions to Vasco de Gama’s and James Cook’s geographical explorations reveal the author’s interest in travel as an anthropological experience, while quotations from Swift and De Maistre suggest a familiarity with the literary conventions and the most recent renewal of the European novel. From a theoretical point of view, the essay examines the interaction between travel literature, (anti-)novel, récit excentrique, and parody, in order to show that literary contamination works as an estrangement device. At the same time, this theoretical interpretation is evaluated (from an analytical and interpretative point of view) in relation to the narrative techniques through which Contarini expresses the alienation-effect of the first-person dramatized narrator, prompting a strong sense of disorientation in the reader (but not in the main character).

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The female characters in Branislav Nušić's and Stefan Kostov's selected comedies

Bastina ◽

10.5937/bastina30-28602 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 95-109

Author(s):

Đurđina Isić

Keyword(s):

Small Town ◽

Point Of View ◽

Theoretical Point ◽

Female Characters ◽

Modern Age ◽

The Social ◽

The World ◽

The Subject ◽

Bereaved Family

The paper presents the results of research that included comparative study of the place and role of female characters in selected and representative comedies by Serbian comedigrapher Branislav Nušić (eng. MP, Suspicious person, Mrs Minister, Bereaved family, Dr, Deceased; srb. Narodni poslanik, Sumnjivo lice, Ožalošćena porodica, Dr, Pokojnik, Vlast) and Bulgarian comedigrapher Stefan Kostov (eng. Gold mine, Golemanov, Grasshoppers, Nameless comedy; blg. Zlamnama mina, Golemanov, Skakalci, Komediâ bez ime) in order to find similarities and differences in the process of comedigraphic shaping of female characters in the work of these two authors. The subject of the research was viewed primarily from a literary-theoretical point of view, and the dominant methods of study were comparative and analytical-synthetic. During the research, there was a differentiation of female characters in accordance with their motivational structures, psychological assemblies and the nature of the place and the role they play in the social environment in which they are located. Therefore, we can distinguish female characters who live in the province and who are fully representative of the small-town spirit, female characters who live in the capital and are a symbol of the modern age and female characters who dwell in the capital, but in fact, deeply down still carry a small-town view of the world. The structure of this paper is in line with this distinction. Conclusions made at the end of the study show that the representation of female characters in analyzed comedies of both comedigaphers is highly similar in its nature.

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A Bibliography of British Travel Books on Argentina: 1810-1860

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.2307/978837 ◽

1959 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 133-143 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

S. Samuel Trifilo

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Great Britain ◽

Travel Literature ◽

Literary Form ◽

Full Length ◽

Living Room ◽

Travel Books ◽

The World ◽

Written Word ◽

Source Of Information

Books of travel and books inspired by travel have probably been more popular in Great Britain than any other literary form, with the exception of novels.This was especially true in the nineteenth century, when travel, owing to the lack of today's facilities, was reserved for the relative few. During that period, photography had not yet replaced the written word, as is happening in our own generation. The nineteenth-century Englishman wandered through the medium of a travel book and not through newsreels, travelogues, and even full-length movies. Today, the Englishman, like the American, is able to sit in his living room and see the world on his television screen. He is not dependent on literature to the extent that his grandfather or great-grandfather was. For the Englishman of the nineteenth century, therefore, travel literature was very important. Often, these books furnished the only source of information concerning strange lands and strange peoples.

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KAJIAN SASTRA PERJALANAN DALAM HIKAYAT KISAH PELAYARAN ABDULLAH KE MEKAH KARYA ABDULLAH BIN ABDUL KADIR MUNSYI

LITE: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya ◽

10.33633/lite.v17i1.4421 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 96-116

Author(s):

Yacub Fahmilda ◽

Putri Zulikha

Keyword(s):

Literary Criticism ◽

Travel Writing ◽

Travel Literature ◽

Point Of View ◽

The Self ◽

Main Character ◽

Analytic Methods ◽

Writing Theory ◽

Six Elements

This research is aimed to identify and to reveal a hikayat as classic travel literature of Indonesia by the travel writing theory of Carl Thompson. To gain those purposes, this research used literary criticism and descriptive-analytic methods. The object of this study is Kisah Pelayaran Abdullah ke Mekah by Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi (1854), focusing on the six elements of travel writing by Carl Thompson’s approach based on the hikayat. This study shows that the hikayat contains six elements of travel writing. Those are self, other, movement, space, encounter, and writing. Abdullah as a sailor puts himself in his hikayat as the main character by using “sahaya” and “aku” to articulate “self” in his hikayat. The “self” during travel met new and foreign things that the author had never seen before. He drew and expressed his point of view, feeling, and observation of all the encounters that he had met during sailing in to hikayat.Keywords: Carl Thompson, hikayat, travel writing

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Some aspects on the Pictures of the North

Nordlit ◽

10.7557/13.1317 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 251

Author(s):

Lennart Pettersson

Keyword(s):

Travel Literature ◽

Quantitative Methods ◽

High Light ◽

Written Text ◽

The North ◽

Travel Books ◽

The World ◽

Generalized Knowledge ◽

The 19Th Century ◽

Different Parts

The objectives of this article are to draw the attention to, in my view, two necessities in the field of research on illustrated travel literature. I will argue that in order to understand the nature of illustrated travel literature the research has to be multidisciplinary and has to deal with the written text as well as the illustrations. The reader gained their perceptions of the places described from both pictures and texts and in order to retrieve how different parts of the world were, and still is, perceived according to certain criteria stated in travel literature, scholars must work with a variety of visual and textual communication strategies. The secondof my "necessities" is that this material urges scholars to study it with quantitative methods. There are so many different illustrated travel books that it would be a loss if researcher did not try to study them as one unit and thereby gain generalized knowledge on the field. Having stated these two "necessities" I must also state that I do not mean that all research into travel literature must have these approaches but I hope that they will be important factors in the discourses the coming years.In order to show some of the possibilities of the methods mentioned above I will discuss some of the possible aspects of a quantitative study of the pictures of the north as they appear in illustrated travel literature of the nineteenth century. I will present statistics dealing with artistic subjects, differences between the patterns of illustrations in books published in different languages and how the pictorial revolution in the 19th century changed the travel literature. In the second part of the article I will examine one illustrated travel book in order to high-light how text and illustration complemented each other and created significance together.

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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

10.5117/9781898823797 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Kiyonori Kanasaka

Keyword(s):

Political History ◽

Far East ◽

First Century ◽

The Past ◽

The Far East ◽

Travel Books ◽

The World ◽

Travel Writings ◽

Modern Japan ◽

First Time

Isabella Bird’s best-selling book on Japan is republished here, but with a difference: for the first time, it is now fully annotated with supporting commentaries, providing the twenty-first century reader with an enhanced informed view of the new ‘modern Japan’ as Bird experienced it in 1878. Originally published as a two-volume work in 1880, this later abridged version, first published in 1885 and promoted as ‘a tale of travel and adventure’, became one of the best-selling travel books published by John Murray; it was reprinted numerous times and by different publishers. This volume is the original 1885 edition. It is not a facsimile, but has been reprocessed digitally to enable the annotations to be inserted, as well as the 40 copperplate illustrations to be restored to their original quality. The commentaries and notes have been written by Kiyonori Kanasaka, Japan’s leading expert on Isabella Bird who, over the past nearly 30 years, has retraced Isabella Bird’s footsteps in all the parts of the world she visited, and knows her travels in Japan intimately. (See Isabella Bird and Japan: A Reassessment>, Renaissance Books 2017.) This book will be essential reading for all those interested in the Bird legacy, the birth of modern Japan, travel writings of the Far East, the topography of Japan and Japan’s social and political history.

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METHODOLOGICAL SPECIFICS OF COMPARATIVE RESEARCH IN EDUCATION

Facta Universitatis, Series: Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education ◽

10.22190/futlte170430004j ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 033

Author(s):

Dragana Jovanović ◽

Marina Ćirić

Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Comparative Research ◽

Social Function ◽

Point Of View ◽

Theoretical Point ◽

Mixed Methods Approach ◽

The World ◽

Research In Education ◽

Contemporary Context

Research interest in comparing education took place in parallel with the study of society and social achievements. Contemporary context, in which there is interdependence and reciprocity, demands re-focusing on the role of comparative research in analyzing the structure, resources development, social function of education in relation to the position in the structure of the world. In this paper, by analyzing the methodological characteristics, with special overview to the methods, seeks to highlight the problems of comparative researches and ways to overcome them. From the theoretical point of view, changes will be considered as well as analyzing the arguments about the need to mixed-methods approach in comparing educational phenomena. At the same time it seeks to identify tendencies which reflect both directions and contradictions in the development of comparative research, as well as the factors of this development.

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Joint Discussion 11: The Lithium Problem Introduction

Highlights of Astronomy ◽

10.1017/s1539299600011631 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 10 ◽

pp. 437-438

Author(s):

F. Spite

Keyword(s):

Difficult Problem ◽

Point Of View ◽

General Assembly ◽

Theoretical Point ◽

Essential Information ◽

Primordial Nucleosynthesis ◽

Points Of Interest ◽

The World ◽

Interstellar Material ◽

Made In

The exact title of the JD 11 was: “stellar and interstellar lithium and primordial nucleosynthesis”. The large amount of work recently done about lithium provided an incentive for a discussion among the members of several commissions of the IAU. Lithium is a peculiar element. Since it is not produced in supernovae (at least such a production is not proven and would be quite different from the production of the other elements) its presence in old material is a legacy of the primordial nucleosynthesis. But lithium is a fragile element, and from a theoretical point of view, there are arguments tending to conclude that, in old stars, this legacy has been depleted. This difficult problem is areal challenge, an has been the motivation for many different works. The analysis of the lithium behavior in well known stars, of all kind of ages, metallicities, structures, peculiarities etc. is therefore extremely useful in order to understand the physicalprocesse at work for lithium depletion, and the reader will find here many up-to-date data. The analysis of lithium in interstellar material provides an essential information. Many works about lithium are in progress throughout the world on the different points of interest, so that the General Assembly of the IAU was an excellent occasion to have a review of the recent progresses made in different areas. A summary of (nearly) each communication made during the Joint Discussion 11 may be found hereafter. Longer summaries of the talks, and summaries of the posters will be published in a forthcoming volume of the Memorie of the Società Astronomica Italiana.

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Application of activity - based costing in companies in Poland

Comparative Economic Research ◽

10.2478/v10103-009-0041-4 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 107-139

Author(s):

Tomasz Wnuk-Pel

Keyword(s):

Management Accounting ◽

Implementation Process ◽

Point Of View ◽

General Tendency ◽

Theoretical Point ◽

Activity Based Costing ◽

General Direction ◽

Accounting Practice ◽

The World ◽

Process Managers

The purpose of this paper is to explore the application of activity-based costing in companies in Poland, and more specifically, to analyse problems In ABC implementation, the structure of ABC systems and the ways in which ABC information is used. Findings of the research have both practical and theoretical implications. First, from the practical point of view, future implementers of ABC systems should be aware of factors actually influencing ABC implementation as well as problems which can be encountered during the implementation process. Managers considering activity-based costing implementation may see level of detail and methods of construction of an ABC information model. They may also benefit from the knowledge of how information generated by an ABC systems is actually used by companies. All this may help to make better decision about ABC implementation and if the decision is to implement ABC, it may help to implement it successfully. From the theoretical point of view the research carried out makes it possible to establish a general tendency: modifications in costing systems applied in Polish enterprises and development of management accounting practice such as ABC follows the same general direction as management accounting practice in the world.

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The Narrative Techniques in The Portrait of a Lady

English Language and Literature Studies ◽

10.5539/ells.v6n4p89 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 89

Author(s):

Yu Zhao

Keyword(s):

Henry James ◽

Human Heart ◽

Point Of View ◽

Literary Critic ◽

Human Relations ◽

Organic Form ◽

Portrait Of A Lady ◽

The World ◽

Narrative Techniques

The paper aims to analyze the narrative techniques in Henry James’ masterpiece The Portrait of a Lady. James is both a novelist and a literary critic. The narrative techniques that James puts forward are mixed well like milk and water with the theme of The Portrait of a Lady. James regards human heart as a closed book and is very interested in the obscurity in human relations. Isabel is eager to learn about the world, yet she is always haunted with the feeling of helplessness due to the isolation and estrangement with others. James’ three narrative techniques, i.e., the “central consciousness”; the “limited point of view” and the “organic form” are employed to effectively represent the theme in this novel.

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Competing, cooperating, deciding: towards a model of deliberative debate

10.36253/978-88-5518-329-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Critical Thinking ◽

Point Of View ◽

Theoretical Point ◽

Educational Models ◽

Practical Point ◽

Living Together ◽

The World ◽

Initial Idea ◽

Training Activities

Will there be any ‘happy dispute’ again? A debate among people holding different opinions that does not end with a repetition of the initial idea, but rather with an improvement of one’s own beliefs and those of others? In order to achieve this, we need to rely on education which, through deliberative debate training activities, can foster the development of rhetorical and dialectical skills (the ability to persuade and compete) as well as critical thinking and open-mindedness (living together and cooperating). A number of scholars from around the world reflect on the topic both from a theoretical point of view – the significance of debate in a hyperconnected society – and from a practical point of view, the application of educational models and tools to measure their effectiveness.

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