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THE REVIVAL OF THE GENRE: KEY TRENDS IN THE CONTEMPORARY TRAVELOGUE DEVELOPMENT
Travelogue as a personal journey suggests a high degree of reflection. The writers have referred to this genre at all times. However, at the turn of the 20th – 21st centuries, it has become extremely popular due to its transformation into a multi-level ...
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Inner Otherness as a Source of Fear: Elements of Horror in Balkan Travelogues
Travel fiction has created numerous Others, assigning them an ontologically unstable status, while the traditional travelogue spread a fear of the dark interior of Europe, presenting images of daily political strife, assassinations, wars and uprisings ...
Sanja Lazarević Radak
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'Oh, to Be a European! What Rastko Petrovic Learnt in Africa' [PDF]
Book description: Twelve studies explicitly developed to elaborate on travel writing published in book form by east Europeans travelling in Europe from ca. 1550 to 2000.
Milutinovic, Z
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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The Imagology of Women in Ibn Batutah’s Travelogue [PDF]
Literary and historical texts can be considered as the most important tool in recognizing the images of women of different ethnic groups in the past. Imagology is the knowledge to classify and analyze the images of women in these texts on a systematic ...
Ehsan Ghabool +2 more
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A Theory's Travelogue: Post-Colonial Theory in Post-Socialist Space [PDF]
This essay examines theoretical arguments surrounding the use of post-colonial theory as a way to fill in the epistemological lacuna in the studies of post-socialism.
Hladík, Radim
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Field Theory and Colonialism: Indirect Colonial Situation as a Social Field in Egypt (1882–1922)
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Egypt under British rule (1882–1922) constituted a field of power in which the local state of Egypt and the British administration competed to dominate three key subfields to ensure control over a contested territory: the modern courts system, policing, and agricultural production.
Mehdi Hoseini
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FOOD CULTURE IN IBN BATTUTA’S TRAVELOGUE [PDF]
Travelogues are valuable information sources about the period they were written. Ibn Battuta of Tangiers, Morocco, is a famous traveler of the 14th century. In his travelogue, Ibn Battuta exhibits a rich variety of information on the people, social life,
Aysel YILMAZ, Sibel ÖNÇEL, Medet YOLAL
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Embodiment and the senses in travelogue filmmaking [PDF]
This practice-based research presents an analysis of the representation of embodied experience in the travelogue film genre. It reflects upon the embodied and synaesthesic nature of the cinematic experience by tracing a shift in travelogue filmmaking ...
Carrillo Quiroga, P. +1 more
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When should firms watch for cross‐industry competition? A demand‐side perspective
Abstract Research Summary Research on competitor identification has primarily focused on intra‐industry competition. However, cross‐industry competitive threats are prevalent and consequential. We adopt a consumer‐oriented perspective to examine how consumer perceptions shape de facto competition across industry boundaries.
Ying Li, Samira Reis, Olga M. Khessina
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