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Representations of Hungary and Transylvania in John Paget’s Travelogue
Hungary was an important destination for British travelers in the nineteenth century, whose travel accounts provide intriguing insights into the cultural and political climate of the period. John Paget’s journey was meticulously recorded in his extensive
Borbála Bökös
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Currents of Progress, Toy Store for Tourists: Nineteenth-Century Mexican Liberals View the Niagara Falls [PDF]
The essay addresses the depiction of the Niagara Falls as an ambivalent symbol of progress in nineteenth-century Mexican travel accounts of the United States. At that time, various Mexican intellectuals spent some time in the USA.
Haas, Astrid
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Public Patterns in Private Writing: Computational Insights into Russophone Diaries
Abstract Diaries seem to contain almost anything; how could it be otherwise, given the diversity of their authors, the variety of contexts in which they are authored, and the range of reasons for authoring them? But examining diaries en masse, using computationally assisted reading, discloses large‐scale commonalities obscured by the local variance ...
Tatyana Gershkovich +2 more
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When Everything Old Was New Again: Reclaiming Ethnonational Tradition in Post‐Soviet Buryatia
Abstract Why greet your family in Buryat rather than Russian? What does it matter how many times you fold the dough of a meat dumpling? How should one celebrate a holiday? In early twenty‐first‐century Buryatia, the Buryat Buddhist New Year, Sagaalgan, emerged as an important domain within which such small practices were reified as expressive of Buryat
Kathryn E. Graber
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AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TEXTS OF JULIJE BENEŠIĆ AND JOSIP KOSOR (A COMPARISON)
A comparative analysis of two autobiographical texts of two contemporaries, Julije Benešić and Josip Kosor, is based on three aspects: analysis of basic tenets of autobiographical text, use of self-references, and the presence of literary panoramas in ...
Marina Jemrić
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Louise Colet (1810-1876), Promenade en Hollande (1859) : voyage et histoire
Louise Colet, poet, novelist and journalist, is also the author of several travelogues. In this article we study the first, Promenade en Hollande (1859). We begin by situating it in the context of the evolution of the genre, particularly that of the long
Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau
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Geographical travelogue and yourist guide: styles’ differences [PDF]
Styles peculiarities of the Geographical travelogue and Tourist guide were revealed and analyzed in this article. As a result of comparative analysis, we can see that these styles are differ greatly from each other by a wide range of features. There is a
Боровкова, Н. М.
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Oksana Olegovna Korzun, E. Shtanko
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Firdaus Kanga was born in Bombay with osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease), a condition that prevented his bones from growing beyond a certain point. Also this condition meant that his bones had the potential of breaking easily. As a result, he
Hawley, John C.
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