Odysseys / Odyssées - Travel Narratives in French / Récits de voyage en français

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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).

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jeanne M. Garane
• Mitarbeit: Jeanne M Garane (Herausgeber), Jeanne M. Garane (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Brill
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 09.03.2017
• EAN: 9789004334687
• ISBN: 978-90-0-433468-7
• Seiten: 244
• Abmessung: 161 mm x 242 mm x 20 mm
• Gewicht: 544 g
• Serien: French Literature Series; French Literature
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Medien, Kommunikation > Journalistik