Here and there: the literature of travel
E Barry
8 points
* 2 hours per week
* Second semester
* Clayton
Objectives On the successful completion of this subject, students should have developed a broad historical overview of the genre of travel literature and an understanding of contemporary theoretical perspectives on the subject of travel and `otherness'.
Synopsis This subject will examine, within an English-speaking context and over a broad historical timeframe, a spectrum of individual/social/cultural rationales for travel and the ways in which these experiences (real or imaginary) have found expression in literature. Texts will range from accounts of mediaeval pilgrimages, through imaginary voyages, utopian fantasies, New World travellers' tales, explorers' journals, the concept of the Grand Tour, to contemporary tourism.
Assessment second year Seminar paper (15 minutes): 25%
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Library/Writing exercise (1500 words): 25%
* Essay (3000 words): 40%
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Seminar participation: 10%
Assessment third year Seminar paper (15 minutes): 25%
* Essay (1500
words): 25%
* Essay (3000 words): 40%
* Seminar participation: 10%
* Different topics will be set for the third-year long essay; they will
involve coverage of more texts and a greater theoretical grasp of the issues.
Prescribed Texts
Fussell P (ed.) The Norton book of travel Norton, 1987
Swift J Gulliver's travels Oxford
Melville H Typee Penguin
Macauley R The towers of Trebizond Flamingo
Byron R The road to Oxiana Penguin
Kerouac J On the road Penguin
Chatwin B The songlines Picador
Gerster R (ed.) Hotel Asia Penguin
Bryson B The lost Continent
Preliminary Reading
Bassett J (ed.) Great Southern landings: An anthology of Antipodean travel Oxford, 1993
Buzard J The beaten track: European tourism, literature and the ways to `Culture' Oxford, 1993
Feifer M Going places: The ways of the tourist from Imperial Rome to the present day London, 1985
Foster S Across new worlds Hertfordshire, 1990
Fussell P Abroad: British literary travelling between the wars Oxford, 1980
Hindley G Tourists, travellers and pilgrims London, 1983
Pratt M L Imperial eyes: Travel writing and transculturation London, 1992
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