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Scripted Geographies
Gayle R. Nunley
其他書名
Travel Writings by Nineteenth-century Spanish Authors
出版Bucknell University Press, 2007
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / Spanish & PortugueseLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / GeneralTravel / Essays & Travelogues
ISBN08387563369780838756331
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bBkzabOqYVkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This study offers the first book-length exploration of travel narratives by nineteenth-century Spanish authors. Focusing on texts produced during a crucial period in the development of Spain's modern consciousness at the close of its imperial age, Scripted Geographies shows how writers' strategies of travel representation reflected and participated in this process of cultural transformation. The first two chapters, devoted to travel within Europe, explore constructions of Spain's sometimes problematic encounter with Western society and traditions. The final chapters shift to orientalist travel, allowing reflection on how Spanish renderings of the non-Western other intersect with patterns found in the better-known corpus of orientalist literature produced in then-ascendant imperial powers like Britain and France. These textual constructions of cultural difference reflect at a profound level their authors' preoccupations and hopes for Spain, as well as their strong awareness of both the powers and dangers inherent in the process of representing real world experience via language. Professor of Spanish at the University of Vermont.