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Throughout history, human beings have felt the need to explore unknown places of the world, see distant countries, and recognize and promote new people and new places for various purposes.
Mariana Budu
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Abstract Plant name epithets (as well as names of other organisms governed by the ICN), which are derived from geographic names, are not correctable when their original spelling was intentional and based on contemporary linguistic realities, even if it is currently considered outdated.
Alexander N. Sennikov, Irina V. Belyaeva
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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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Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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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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We present an approach at identifying a specific class of events, movement action events (MAEs), in a data set that consists of ca. 2,800 personal letters exchanged by the German architect Erich Mendelsohn and his wife, Luise. A backend system uses these
Georg Rehm +8 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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Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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