The problem with which this study is concerned is that of demonstrating the importance of communication and travel in the Siglo de Oro as seen in selected picaresque novels. This study is divided into five chapters. The introductory chapter includes a literary and chronological history of the period and, in the interest of clarity, a plot summary of the selected picaresque novels. The second, third and fourth chapters discuss the various means of urban, rural and maritime communication and travel. The concluding chapter summarizes the study and asserts that communication and travel were of utmost importance during the Siglo LeQ ro and that the picaresque novel, describing faithfully the society that produced it, is a valuable data source for research of this kind.

This study examines five counter-narratives written by British women between 1832 and 1885 who wrote in a non-conformist or negative manner about their travel experiences in foreign countries. In considering a small number of women travellers who took an alternative approach to narrating their experiences, a key objective of this study is to consider the reasons for the way in which the women writing counter-narratives positioned their writing. After considering how the quasi-scientific concept of domestic womanhood attempted to restrict Victorian women in general, and in particular influenced how women travellers were viewed, an exploration of counter-narratives questions whether the sustained interest in more positive travel accounts reflects a simplified contemporary, if not feminist, reading of Victorian women. An examination follows of the influence of discourse criticism, alternative interpretations of geographical space, and the presence of intertextuality in travel writing. The chapters are then arranged chronologically, with each counter-narrative being analysed as emanating from the range of discourses that were in conflict during the period. The writers form a varied group, travelling and living in five different countries, with a range of contradictory voices. Susannah Moodie and Emily Innes are outspoken in their criticism of British government policy for Canada and the Malay States respectively; Isabella Fane in India and Emmeline Lott in Egypt are disdainful of foreign practices which were otherwise considered fascinating on account of their exoticism; Frances Elliot differentiates her writing by opposing the ubiquitous influence of guidebooks for European travel. Thus each account records an aspect of political or cultural opposition to established discourses circulating at the time, as the women challenge the 'grand narratives' of foreign travel in different ways. Because such accounts may be challenged by literature of the period, the study positions the women in the context of their contemporaries, and thus each chapter examines the counter-narrative alongside another account by a female writer who travelled or lived in a similar area during the same era. Moreover, before examining the range of discursive complexities and tensions that emerge in each case study, the writers are positioned in their geographical locations and historical moments so that the texts are read against the cultural background to which the women were originally responding. The marginalisation of such counter-narratives has led to gaps in our understanding of travel writing from the period: where accounts once coexisted they are separated, and positive accounts are privileged over negative ones. It is this discontinuity of knowledge that the study will address in order to create a truer picture of the diversity of travel writing at the time.

This Master's thesis consists of two separate parts: Le vent dans les voiles, a travel fiction, is followed by a short essay, Le voyage comme archeologie de la memoire. / Le vent dans les voiles is both a travel fiction and a short apprenticeship novel. Julien Legare, an idealistic young man, is fond of Jim Morrison and Zarathoustra . As he is travelling in Europe, his dreams of intellectual and emotional liberation are breaking down to pieces. Disillusion eventually leads him to a new vision, beyond childhood nostalgia. / The essay is a mythocritical analysis of three Twentieth Century novels by Le Clezio, Proust and Gabrielle Roy: Le chercheur d'or, A la recherche du temps perdu and La Route d'Altamont . These books have in common the themes of travel, memory and creation. The three protagonists all long for the lost paradise of their childhood, thus they search for their origins. Travelling in space and time, on the outside and inside themselves, they become archaeologists of their own memory, digging for forgotten treasures. Is remembrance a topos of travel literature?

Travel writing is by definition an open and hybrid form that encompasses a variety of genres, styles, and modes of presentation. This study focuses on four little-known travel texts about Italy written between 1840 and 1880 by two English and two German women writers and shows how, by exploiting the openness of the form of travel writing, they broadened its scope beyond mere description to provide insight into national ideologies and identities while expanding the boundaries of the female sphere of influence. This study considers the following texts: Mary Shelley’s Rambles in Germany and Italy, in 1840, 1842, and 1843 (1844), Adele Schopenhauer’s Florenz: Ein Reiseführer mit Anekdoten und Erzählungen (1847/48) (2007), Frances Power Cobbe’s Italics: Brief Notes on Politics, People, and Places in Italy, in 1864 (1864), and Fanny Lewald’s Reisebriefe aus Deutschland, Italien und Frankreich 1877, 1878 (1880). In the first chapter, the four texts under consideration are presented against the backdrop of nineteenth-century sexual ideology of the ‘separate spheres’ and the conventions of women’s travel writing. A survey of the long tradition of English and German travellers to Italy and their writings is provided to establish the context in which the texts were produced. Also considered is the role they play in the narrative of Italian nation-building. In the second chapter, the discussion of Rambles in Germany and Italy examines how, by presenting herself as a mother and an educator, Shelley foregrounds the pedagogical purpose of the book, which aims at garnering the sympathy of her British audience for the oppressive political situation of the Italian people and their growing nationalism. The third chapter explores Schopenhauer’s attempt in Florenz to create her own gendered version of the guidebook for travellers in the style of Murray and Baedeker and to revive the memory of the democratic institutions of thirteenth-century Florence at a time when Italians were fighting for democratic reforms and independence. The fourth chapter shows how, in Italics, the representation of Italy in the wake of its partial unification in 1861 is closely intertwined with Cobbe’s own thinking on politics, religion, and women’s emancipation. The fifth chapter examines how, in Reisebriefe, the discussion of the social and political changes that had affected both Italy and Germany in the previous forty years allows Lewald to engage in a reflection on her own femininity and on the role of women in the newly formed German nation. Shelley, Schopenhauer, Cobbe and Lewald each used travel writing to explore their own identities as women and as writers. Pushing the form beyond exposition into the realm of social commentary, they used it to shape public opinion and to explore new roles for women in society.

Zugl.: Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 2005

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Orientador: Leila da Costa Ferreira / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T02:32:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fetz_Marcelo_D.pdf: 13166918 bytes, checksum: a3185076b0ee7dc05621a7f9047c4864 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: As pesquisas em sociologia da ciência destacam a formação do pensamento científico nas diferentes sociedades como um processo histórico que, embora singular, apresenta-se conectado diretamente com os elementos culturais (políticos, econômicos e sociais). Esses mesmos elementos foram destacados por Robert K. Merton e Joseph Ben-David, quando do estudo da formação da comunidade científica e do processo de institucionalização da ciência na Europa. No Brasil, no entanto, poucas são as pesquisas direcionadas para a compreensão da ciência nacional em sua fase pré-institucional. Nesta tese, apresentamos a formação da atividade científica no Brasil entendendo-a como reflexo das transformações surgidas no decorrer da Segunda Revolução Científica, durante a passagem do século XVIII para o XIX. Sob a influência da Ciência Romântica, o pensamento científico no Brasil foi formado a partir da presença da chamada literatura de viagem científica - estilo de conhecimento caracterizado por um saber baseado na "razão estética", na "razão lírica" e na "razão científica". Em outras palavras, a ciência natural no Brasil inicia o seu processo de difusão através de uma ciência organizada entre a razão científica e a fruição artística, uma ciência que seria apenas institucionalizada no início da segunda metade do século XIX. Esta pesquisa apresenta uma análise histórica das conexões entre literatura, pintura de paisagem e pensamento científico, tendo como objeto de pesquisa as narrativas científicas de viagem elaboradas no Brasil por viajantes-naturalistas na primeira metade do século XIX (Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied, Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege e Carl Fridriech F. von Martius) / Abstract: The research in sociology of science shows the rise of scientific thought in different societies as a specific historical process, even though unique, directly connected with others cultural spheres (political, economic and social). These features were highlighted by Robert K. Merton and Joseph Ben-David, when studying the rise of the scientific community and the institutionalization of science in European countries. In Brazil, however, few research studies focused the understanding of national science in its pre-institutional phase. In this thesis, we present the rise of scientific thought in Brazil understanding it as a reflection of the changes performed during the Second Scientific Revolution, in the passage of the eighteenth to the nineteenth century. Under the influence of the Romantic Science, the scientific thought in Brazil was shaped by the inspiration of the so-called scientific travel literature - a variety of scientific systematic knowledge based on "aesthetical reasoning", "lyrical reasoning" and "scientific reasoning". In other words, the natural science in Brazil begin their process of local dissemination as a science organized between formal reason and artistic enjoyment, a science that would be institutionalized only at the beginning of the second half of the nineteenth century. This research presents a historical analysis of the connections between literatures, landscapes painting and scientific thought, by the understanding of the scientific travel narratives written in Brazil by traveler naturalists in the first half of the nineteenth century (Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied, Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege and Carl Fridriech F. von Martius) / Doutorado / Sociologia / Doutor em Sociologia

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Zugl.: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss.