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Taxonomic corrections and new records for vascular plants of Kyrgyzstan, 6
A series of notes on taxonomy, nomenclature, morphology and distributions of native species of vascular plants in Kyrgyzstan is presented. Anaphalis roseoalba is treated as a synonym of A. virgata; Hippolytia herderi and H. megacephala are new synonyms of H. senecionis; Hippolytia darvasica and H. schugnanica are new synonyms of H. tomentosa; Campanula
Alexander N. Sennikov +4 more
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Evliyâ Çelebi's Strange and Wondrous Europe
The Seyahatnâme is an extraordinary source for literary and cultural studies, not just because of its size but also because it includes a wide range of narrative styles and discourses.
Yeliz Özay
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A Survey of Utopia—Creating Filmic Travelogues in Architectural Design Studio Education
This paper investigates the potential of the creation of filmic travelogues in architectural design studio education. It looks at student works from a studio conducted at RWTH Aachen University in the summer term of 2017 and explores how the works ...
Johannes Müntinga, G. Verhaeghe
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Introduction: Engaging Fluid Geographies
ABSTRACT The phrase ‘fluid geographies’, chosen as the theme for the 2024 New Zealand Geographical Society Conference, has both literal and metaphorical dimensions. It suggests flows, immersions and crosscurrents. These nuances of fluidity are at play in the work of three New Zealand ‘geographers‐at‐large’: writer Kennedy Warne, painter and poet ...
Robin Kearns
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The “Iranian Awakening” in the perception of the Western observer: Myths and reality [PDF]
The article attempts to analyze the materials of Western travelogues concerning the events in Iran in 1905–1911, which became a powerful ideological factor in the domestic political life of the country, for the first time so powerfully and ...
Baranov, Alexey V.
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Encountering Malta II : British writers and the Mediterranean 1760 - 1840 : literature, landscapes, politics : conference review [PDF]
In January 2014, the Department of English at the University of Malta held the second in a series of conferences, entitled ‘Encountering Malta II – British Writers and the Mediterranean 1760-1840: Literature, Landscapes, Politics’.
Caruana, Christine, Farrugia, James
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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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Two Types of Events in Border Crossing Narratives of Contemporary Travelogues
The paper analyzes border crossing in two contemporary travelogues – The Border by E. Fatland (2021) and All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands by S. E. Griest (2017).
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The paper analyzes geo-historical, topographical and perceptive issues of the travel diary by Carla Novellis di Coarazze (1865-?), née Dreyfus, of Hungarian origin, in China from November 1906 to January 1907 together with her husband, Italian Baron ...
Stefano Piastra
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