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This book identifies, through an interdisciplinary lens, literary works that treat the theme of the journey from multiple angles: religious, psychological, psychoanalytical, philosophical, educational, and historical.
List of contents
Introduction
Crossing Sacred Frontiers
Elena V. Shabliy
Homo Religiosus and Homo Viator
Chapter 1
Faith and the Fortunes of Travel in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
June-Ann Greeley
Chapter 2
Pilgrimages of Croats by Sea to Loreto and Assisi in the 18th Century: A Historiographic and Hermeneutical Analysis
Zrinka Podhraski Cizmek
Chapter 3
The Tossing and Turning of the Sea: Gregory the Great's Use of Seafaring Imagery to Describe his Spiritual Journey
Paul A. Brazinski
Chapter 4
Happiness on the Sisyphean Path: Reflections on Augustinian Rest in the Face of Divine Absence
Trevor B. Williams
Journeys across Cultural Borders
Chapter 5
When Robinson Crusoe Taught Swiss Youth to Read: The Travel Writing as Child Natural Education
Giorgia Masoni & Sylviane Tinembart
Chapter 6
Transcending Linguistic Borders in Crashaw's Teresa Hymns
Fabrice Schultz
Chapter 7
A Poetic Journey to Japan's Imaginary Past: Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura
Kelly Hansen
Chapter 8
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About the author
Elena V. Shabliy is center associate in the Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. Kimarie Engerman full Professor of psychology and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of the Virgin Islands.Elena V. Shabliy is visiting scholar at Harvard University.
Summary
This book identifies, through an interdisciplinary lens, literary works that treat the theme of the journey from multiple angles: religious, psychological, psychoanalytical, philosophical, educational, and historical.
