14 articles in this issue
Katre Talviste
Editor’s Preface
Shang Wu
Introduction: Texts and Theories of Travel
Jean Bessière
Abstract: To see what I expect to see: travel writing's degree zero and literarytravel narratives. With references to Henri Michaux and Michel Butor. This essay examines what arguments can be put forward to explain why readers and critics view travel writ... see more
Duncan Poupard
Abstract: Tibetan author Alai’s Chinese essay, Yi di shui jingguo Lijiang (??????? [A drop of water passes through Lijiang]) is a piece of travel writing that describes the city of Lijiang (home to the Naxi minority of Yunnan province) and its environs fr... see more
Xiuguo Huang
Abstract: Journey to the West (Xiyou Ji???) and Flowers in the Mirror (Jinghua Yuan???) are two of the best-known stories of travel in ancient Chinese literature. Both works contain descriptions of outlandish sights and foreign customs, particularly the v... see more
Abstract: The intersection of the study of travel writing and the study of translation produces two major perspectives: travel writing in translation and translation in travel writing. The first one looks into how the travel narrative is reshaped in a dif... see more
Quan Wang
Abstract: Insisting on the role of spectator in his travel writing, V.S. Naipaul claims he is merely the “manager of narrative”, who retells objective truths told by the people among whom he travels. Nonetheless, an examination of the ethnic trauma of pos... see more
Jonathan Locke Hart
Abstract: Travel is often thought to be an adventure, an exploration, a way of knowing self and world, a break from the stresses of everyday life, a vacation. But there can be a dark side to travel, as in voyages that are part of invasion, conflict and en... see more
Merlin Kirikal
Abstract. This article studies how the profound changes in theorizing human sexualities in the fin-de-siècle and early 20th century were used and re-used in the oeuvre of Estonian cultural moderniser Johannes Semper (18 92–1970). In his texts, two modern ... see more
Anneli Niinre
Abstract. The archetypal fear of the other and the idea that it is safer to hold on to the familiar are the central topics discussed in one of the best plays in Estonian literature Libahunt (The Werewolf, 1912) by August Kitzberg (1855– 1927). Although th... see more
Merilin Kotta
Abstract. Photography and the writing process in Sete palabras by Suso de Toro, La meitat de l’ànima by Carme Riera and Soinujolearen semea by Bernardo Atxaga. This paper aims to understand the function of pre-digital photography as described in contempor... see more
Iryna Kaizer, Olha Nastenko, Tetiana Nykyforuk, Marta Maksymiuk, Volodymyr Antofiychuk
Abstract. Hryhorii Savych Skovoroda’s religious and philosophic ideas have attracted considerable attention in academic scientific discourse in postcommunist Ukraine. This is due not only to the humanistic-democratic paradigm of modern transformations in ... see more
Aigi Heero
Michael Eskin, Karen Leeder, Marko Pajevic, eds., Paul Celan Today. A Companion. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2021. (Companions to Contemporary German Culture, 10). 376 pages.
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