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Writing journeys across cultural borders / edited by Elena V. Shabliy and Kimarie Engerman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travel in literature.
- Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.
- Travelers' writings--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 249 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Departure
- The Sacred Journey
- The (Unanticipated) Arrival
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part I: Homo Religiosus and Homo Viator
- Chapter 1: Faith and the Fortunes of Travel in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
- Some Accounts of Travel and Travelers from Ancient Civilizations
- Travel in Scripture
- A Medieval Jewish Poet on a Spiritual Quest: Judah Halevi
- A Medieval Muslim Teacher and Spiritual Traveler: Al Ghazali
- Other Modes of Medieval Christian Travelers
- Medieval Christianity and the Journey of Homo Viator
- Chapter 2: Pilgrimages of Croats by Sea to Loreto and Assisi in the Eighteenth Century: A Historiographic and Hermeneutical Analysis
- Homo Viator
- From Homo Symbolicus to Homo Religiosus
- Caves and the First Forms of Pilgrimages
- Monotheistic Religions and their Spread by Sea
- Croats and Pilgrimages
- Croatian Pilgrimages to Loreto and Assisi during the Eighteenth Century
- Perils at Sea: Pirates, Corsairs, the Plague
- Bibliography
- Chapter 3: The Tossing and Turning of the Sea: Gregory the Great's Use of Seafaring Imagery to Describe His Spiritual Journey
- Broken Down Ship of the Papacy-Gregory the Great as Ship Captain
- The Mariner of the "Universal" Church-Cyriacus of Constantinople as Ship Captain
- Influences on Gregory's Seafaring Imagery
- Conclusions
- Chapter 4: Happiness on the Sisyphean Path: Reflections on Augustinian Rest in the Face of Divine Absence
- The Far Country and the Absurd
- Knowing and Finding the Self
- Happiness in Presence and Absence
- Part II: Journeys across Cultural Borders
- Chapter 5: When Robinson Crusoe Taught Swiss Youth to Read: The Travel Writing as Child Natural Education
- Switzerland, an Island for Robinson in the Middle of Europe
- Switzerland, an Archipelago of Schooling Systems
- Robinson Crusoe, a Pedagogical Role Model
- Robinson Crusoe Shows Up in Switzerland . . .
- How Robinson Crusoe Taught Swiss Youth to Read
- Chapter 6: Transcending Linguistic Borders in Crashaw's Teresa Hymns
- Introduction
- "Love Is Eloquence"
- Silence and the Unspeakable
- Allegorical Readings
- The Vocal Materiality of Language
- Chapter 7: Sacred Journeys and the Libraries of Haruki Murakami: Journeys, Metaphors, and Libraries
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- Kafka on the Shore
- The Strange Library
- Problems and Potentials of the Library as Metaphor
- Chapter 8: A Poetic Journey to Japan's Imaginary Past: Natsume S M seki's Kusamakura
- Why a Poetic Journey?
- Genre and Style in Kusamakura
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 03, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Writing journeys across cultural borders
- ISBN:
- 9781666900354
- 1666900354
- Publisher Number:
- 40030809091
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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