Travel As Metaphor
Author: Georges Van Den Abbeele
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781452902838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contient un chapitre sur la notion de voyage chez Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Author: Georges Van Den Abbeele
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781452902838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contient un chapitre sur la notion de voyage chez Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Author: Darlene Farabee
Publisher: ProQuest
Published: 2008
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780549387688
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Print Travels explores how metaphorical and actual descriptions of travel depict and shape early modern thinking and writing about movement. Changes in navigational methods, increases in circulation of travel literature, and advances in means of travel alter how early modern writers present movement. By integrating theories of metaphor with critical approaches to early modern literature, I argue that early modern systems of describing motion change the role of metaphor in the period. The first two chapters examine depictions of actual travel and changes in measurement associated with travel. Chapter one reads practical manuals of navigation and instructions for travelers and argues that the material descriptions of movement found in these texts have a decisive impact on the ways available to describe movement. Chapter two approaches Hakluyt's Principall Navigations as a singular but multi-voiced text. This chapter shows how disparities between the individual's perceptions of movement and larger-scale concerns of travel over greater distances opens the space for metaphoric descriptions to exist and change. The next three chapters examine metaphors and depictions of travel in more canonical texts. Chapter three reads the allegorical travel of Spenser's The Faerie Queene to examine how the characters describe their own movements and to explore the difficulties of translating navigational and mapping methods to a fictional world. Chapter four uses Ralegh's Discoverie of Guiana and Donne's Azores poems to examine how these forms overlay meaning and movement on one another. This comparison allows an exploration of representation of movement and stasis. The final chapter explores questions of movement and stasis in staged depictions of travel in Thomas Heywood's plays. By examining Heywood's plays across the era, I argue that we can map changes in the ways that travel is represented on the stage. I argue that later Heywood plays report travel rather than represent travel on the stage, showing a change in the way that travel can function metaphorically. Print Travels traces changes in the metaphoric descriptions of travel and provides a new way of reading travel metaphors in early modern texts.
Author: David Lipset
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2014-08-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 178238376X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign—for example, a cattle car—and its referent, the Holocaust. These “sign-vehicles” serve as modes of semiotic transportation through conceptual space. Likewise, on-the-ground vehicles can be rich metaphors for the moral imagination. Following on this insight, Vehicles presents a collection of ethnographic essays on the metaphoric significance of vehicles in different cultures. Analyses include canoes in Papua New Guinea, pedestrians and airplanes in North America, lowriders among Mexican-Americans, and cars in contemporary China, Japan, and Eastern Europe, as well as among African-Americans in the South. Vehicles not only “carry people around,” but also “carry” how they are understood in relation to the dynamics of culture, politics and history.
Author: Graham Dann
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780851997612
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book contains a selection of papers from the prestigious Research Committee on International Tourism presented at the World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002. It provides a sociological and anthropological critique of existing tourism theory as well as some directions for its future development and research. While much of the present understanding of the tourist and tourism is grounded in metaphor (e.g. tourism as a sacred journey, tourism as play, the tourist as a child, etc.) such analogies need to be linked to transformations in tourism generating and receiving societies. Hence the focus on the tourist and everyday life, socio-psychological dimensions of the tourist experience, the tourist and conflicting expectations, and the tourist in a changing world.
Author: Janet Wolff
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780300062403
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book of critical writings, Janet Wolff examines issues of exile, memoir, and movement from the perspective of the female stranger. Wolff, born in Great Britain but now living and working in the United States, discusses the positive consequences of women's travel; the use of dance (another form of mobility) as an image of liberation; whether exile or distance provides a better vantage point for cultural criticism than centrality and stability; the place of personal memoir in academic writing; and much more.
Author: Susan Sontag
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In this penetrating analysis of the social attitudes toward various major illnesses - chiefly tuberculosis, the scourge of the 19th century, and cancer, the terror of our own - Susan Sontag demonstrates that "illness is not a metaphor" and shows why "the healthiest way of being ill is one purified of metaphoric thinking." Once tuberculosis was identified as a bacterial infection, it ceased to be a symbol of a romantic fading away or of a sensitive or artistic temperament, and it could be treated and cured. Similarly, we must today cease to think of cancer as a mark of doom, a punishment or a sign of a repressed personality, and recognize it for what it is: one disease among many and often receptive to treatment." -- from back cover.