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What is Travel Literature

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Managing Pandemic Isolation With Literature as Therapy
The notes of a traveler, containing his impressions of the journey, descriptions of events, and observations. Travel literature seeks to communicate information about newly discovered lands or those little known to the reader. It may be the history of an imaginary journey presented as a real one but important chiefly in terms of ideological and literary content, as in adventure stories, utopias, and philosophic works.
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A Song to Life in Pandemic Times: Primavera extremeña by Julio Llamazares (2020)
Barbara Greco (Università di Torino, Italy)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4735-2.ch003
Abstract
The essay studies the work Julio Llamazares drafted during the months of confinement (March-June 2020) decreed by the Spanish state to counter the spread of the pandemic. Primavera extremeña: Apuntes del Natural is an illustrated book with watercolours by Laudenbahcher and recounts the experience of the author, confined in a “lagar” in the Extremaduran countryside, in a work that oscillates between a diary and a travelogue. The chapter studies the dual component of the text and the conception of the landscape, typical of Llamazares' work, which here acquires new meanings.
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Tourist Literature and the Architecture of Travel in Olga Tokarczuk and Patti Smith
A literary (sub)genre that refers to a cluster of textual typologies that portray a fictional or real journey by a narrator-traveller. It is challenging to present an ultimate definition of travel literature because its textual typologies are multiple and diverse, and the nature of the literary phenomenon is complex.
Published in Chapter: Tourist Literature and the Architecture of Travel in Olga Tokarczuk and Patti Smith; From: Global Perspectives on Literary Tourism and Film-Induced Tourism
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