Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 Belated Explorers -- "They Had Walked Beside Us": In Shackleton's Footsteps -- "An Exercise Without Point Or Reward": In the Foots...

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1. Verfasser:	Tromly, Lucas 1973- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York ; London Routledge 2024
Schriftenreihe:	Routledge research in travel writing
Schlagworte:	Benjamin, Walter > 1892-1940 > Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit Reisebericht Berühmte Persönlichkeit Nachahmung Reiseliteratur Wiederholung Englisch Reise Travelers' writings, English / History and criticism Travelers' writings, American / History and criticism Travel in literature Literary criticism
Zusammenfassung:	Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 Belated Explorers -- "They Had Walked Beside Us": In Shackleton's Footsteps -- "An Exercise Without Point Or Reward": In the Footsteps of Scott -- Notes -- 2 Echotourists and Anti-Tourism -- "Things Got Silly": Darwin Slept Here -- A "Fathomless Gulf": Walking the Woods and the Water -- Notes -- 3 Echotourism and Masculinity -- "Facing Down the Congo": Blood River -- "A Stone in My Shoe": Chasing the Devil -- Notes -- 4 Echotourism and Women Writers -- Cruelty's "Bronze Glow": In Byron's Footsteps -- "Skimming Over the Surface": One Dry Season -- Notes -- 5 Echotourism and Postmodernism -- "Besmirching the Monument": Blue Latitudes -- Travels With Avatar John: American Interior -- Notes -- Conclusion: Echotourism and Middlebrow Culture -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. "Travel Writing and Re-Enactment: Echotourism explores the popular subgenre of travel narratives that re-enact historically prominent journeys. Drawing on philosopher Walter Benjamin, this monograph reads such re-enactments as quests for aura in which travellers seek to capture a sense of distinction and historical profundity. Travel Writing and Re-Enactment frames the re-enactment of past journeys in a number of contexts, including Benjamin's writing on mechanical reproduction, Judith Butler's work on gender performance, and postmodern parody. Echotourist journeys are surprisingly contingent and precarious, and force travellers to navigate historical changes involving empire, gender, and travel practice in densely performative ways. Through close readings of contemporary travel narratives this monograph considers the legacies of Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, Graham Greene, Mary Kingsley, and Ernest Shackleton, among others. Travel Writing and Re-Enactment examines the way literary re-enactment expresses, and sometimes confounds, the desire to find meaning through travel in the contemporary world"--
Beschreibung:	131 Seiten
ISBN:	9781032437071 9781032437088