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UNINA9910451284103321 |
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Writes of passage : reading travel writing / / edited by James Duncan and Derek Gregory |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
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1-134-72125-0 |
1-280-32994-7 |
0-203-05454-7 |
0-585-44856-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (234 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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DuncanJames S |
GregoryDerek <1951-> |
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Travel writing |
Travel in literature |
Travel - 18th century |
Travel - 19th century |
Voyages, Imaginary |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction JAMES DUNCAN AND DEREK GREGORY; Limited Visions of Africa: Geographies of savagery and civility in early eighteenth-century narratives ROXANN WHEELER; Enlightenment Travels: The making of epiphany in Tibet LAURIE HOVELL MCMILLIN; Writing Travel and Mapping Sexuality: Richard Burton's Sotadic Zone RICHARD PHILLIPS; The Flight from Lucknow: British women travelling and writing home, 1857 8 ALISON BLUNT; Scripting Egypt: Orientalism and the cultures of travel DEREK GREGORY |
Dis-Orientation: On the shock of the familiar in a far-away place JAMES DUNCAN The Exoticism of the Familiar and the Familiarity of the Exotic: Fin-de-sicle travelers to Greece ROBERT SHANNAN PECKHAM; |
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Travelling through the Closet MICHAEL BROWN; Writing Over the Map of Provence: The touristic therapy of A Year in Provence JOANNE P.SHARP; Index |
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Writes of Passage explores the interplay between a system of ""othering"" which travelers bring to a place, and the ""real"" geographical difference they discover upon arrival. Exposing the tensions between the imaginary and real, Duncan and Gregory and a team of leading international contributors focus primarily upon travelers from the 18th and 19th Centuries to pin down the imaginary within the context of imperial power. The contributors focus on travel to three main regions: Africa, South Asia, and Europe - wit the European examples being drawn from Britain, France and Greece. |
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UNINA9910794023603321 |
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Rematerializing colour : from concept to substance / / edited by Diana Young |
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Canon Pyon : , : Sean Kingston Publishing, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Color |
Color - Psychological aspects |
Color - Social aspects |
Color in art |
Aesthetics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Colour is largely assumed to be already in the world, a natural universal that everyone, everywhere understands. Yet cognitive scientists routinely tell us that colour is an illusion, and a private one for each of |
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us; neither social nor material, it is held to be a product of individual brains and eyes rather than an aspect of things. This collection seeks to challenge these assumptions and examine their farreaching consequences, arguing that colour is about practical involvement in the world, not a finalized set of theories, and getting to know colour is relative to the situation one is in both ecologically and environmentally. Specialists from the fields of anthropology, psychology, cinematography, art history and linguistics explore the depths of colour in relation to light and movement, memory and landscape, language and narrative, in case studies with an emphasis on Australian First Peoples, but ranging as far afield as Russia and First Nations in British Columbia. What becomes apparent, is not only the complex but important role of colours in socializing the world; but also that the concept of colour only exists in some times and cultures. It should not be forgotten that the Munsell Chart, with its construction of colours as mathematical coordinates of hues, value and chroma, is not an abstraction of universals, as often claimed, but is itself a cultural artefact -- |
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