Sterne's A Sentimental Journey and Contemporary Travel Writing Studies

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-88
Author(s):  
Jakub Lipski
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Writing Studies

scholarly journals Vade mecum - käsikirjoja matkakirjallisuuden tutkijoille

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilona Lindh
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Writing Studies

Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley ja Kathryn Walchester (toim.): Keywords for Travel Writing Studies. A Critical Glossary. London: Anthem Press 2019, 347 s. Alasdair Pettinger ja Tim Youngs (toim.): The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2019, 422 s. Matkakirjallisuuden tutkimus elää vahvaa vaihetta. Siitä kertovat osaltaan tuoreet käsikirjat, jotka kokoavat yhteen koko joukon merkittäviä alan tutkijoita ja esittelevät laajasti tutkimuskentän moninaisia kysymyksiä. Anthem Press on julkaissut sadan avainsanan kriittisen sanaston Keywords for Travel Writing Studies (jatkossa Keywords) ja Routledge 25 artikkelin antologian The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing (jatkossa Research Companion). Aiheissa ja painotuksissa on yhtäläisyyksiä, mutta esitystavoiltaan ja tehtäviltään kirjat eroavat toisistaan. Molemmat kirjat nostavat esiin 1980–90-lukujen kriittisten tutkimussuuntausten, kuten postkolonialismin ja feminismin, merkityksen matkakirjallisuuden tutkimukselle, mutta keskittyvät myös esittelemään uusia lähestymistapoja ja luomaan näkymiä tulevaan. 

New Mobilities, Spaces, and Ideas to Market

Transfers ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-122
Author(s):  
Steven D. Spalding
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Travel Narratives ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Writing Studies ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
History Of

This comment on the special section “On Travel Writing and Knowledge Transfer: Itinerant Knowledge Production in European Travel Writing” examines the section’s contributions in terms of the project called for in the section’s introduction. What new kinds of knowledge are produced in the context of the ever-increasing mobility of European travelers from the sixteenth century forward? What are the discursive conditions within which knowledge is constructed in and through travel narratives—including discourses of selves and others, of cultures and nations? How does mobility shape knowledge production, as narratives of journeys across the oceans develop into a full-blown genre with ever-greater stakes for travelers, readers, and nations? The four case studies in the special section offer insightful snapshots from the history of European travel writing—with a special emphasis on German authors—that resonate with major themes from travel writing studies and critical studies more generally, from Romanticism to the colonialist or imperial gaze.

What Am I Still Doing Here?

Journeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-106
Author(s):  
Robin Jarvis
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Life Stage ◽  
Writing Studies ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Road ◽  
Travel Books ◽  
The World ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Point Of Reference

This article offers preliminary thoughts on travel writing from a gerontological perspective. Gender, race, and sexuality have provided important analytical frames for travel writing studies, but age has yet to function as a topic or point of reference. Through a consideration of five travel books by respected modern authors—Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy, V. S. Naipaul, Paul Theroux, and Colin Thubron—the article asks what motivates travel writers to stay “on the road” into their seventies and beyond, and what the distinctive features of travel narratives written at this life stage might be. The article aims to demonstrate the intrinsic fascination of travel books in which a strong abiding curiosity about the world coexists with an acute—and often melancholy—awareness of the passing of time and personal mortality.

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