Odysseys / Odyssées

Travel Narratives in French / Récits de Voyage En Français
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-33468-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Französisch, Band 41, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

Reihe: French Literature Series

The volume explores diverse aspects of French-language travel writing. Arranged chronologically by topic, the essays cover the medieval Anglo-Norman story of the Irish traveller Saint Brendan's fantastical visit to hell; the sixteenth-century French expeditions to Florida; the seventeenth-century Dernières découvertes dans l’Amérique septentrionale de M. de la Sale mises au jour par le chevalier Tonti, 1697; the eighteenth-century Histoire générale des voyages by l’abbé Prévost; the eighteenth-century Impressions d' Orient et d'Arabie written in French by the Polish count Waclaw Seweryn Rzewuski; nineteenth-century tales of travel in Algeria by the orientalist painter Eugène Fromentin; early twentieth-century travel narratives by the modernist Blaise Cendrars; the 1936 visit to the Soviet Union by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and André Gide, odyssean thematics in the late twentieth-century work of Nobel prize winner Patrick Modiano; the thematics of nomadism in the twentieth-century writing of Albert Memmi, and the thematics of travel in works by Bernard Ollivier, Rachid Bouchareb, Fatou Diome, Christine Montalbetti, Marie Ndiaye and Emmanuel Lepage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garane, Jeanne M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Expeditions- & Reiseliteratur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

Jeanne Garane is Professor at the University of South Carolina, translated Abdourahman Waberi’s Land Without Shadows (2005), edited Discursive Geographies (2005), co-edited Translation in French and Francophone Literature and Film (FLS XXXVI, 2009, and recently translated Daniel Picouly’s The Leopard Boy (2016).