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Travel Fictions

Course Materials (Fall 2009)

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  • Syllabus
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  • For further study
    • Daisy Miller
    • The Sun Also Rises
    • Evening of the Holiday
    • On the Road
    • Heart of Darkness
    • The Sheltering Sky
    • Death in Venice
    • The Comfort of Strangers
    • The Journey of Ibn Fattouma
    • A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary
    • Sputnik Sweetheart
  • Video
  • More travel novels
  • Images

Blogs (Fall 2009)

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  • Art of Travel
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Recent Posts

Epiphany in Venice
The Real Lesson is in the Journey
Stranger Danger
The Other Side of the Ocean
Travel Experience and Epiphany

Recent Comments

Would you really want
Packing
I think there may be a logic
I agree with you. I think
i think i actually saw more
Looking back on our arrivals

For further study

About the Readings

  • Daisy Miller
  • The Sun Also Rises
  • Evening of the Holiday
  • On the Road
  • Heart of Darkness
  • The Sheltering Sky
  • Death in Venice
  • The Comfort of Strangers
  • The Journey of Ibn Fattouma
  • A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary
  • Sputnik Sweetheart

Course Materials

Articles on "travel myths"

Thoughts on travel (quotations)

"Questions of Travel" by Elizabeth Bishop

More travel novels

 

 

Articles about Travel

Iyer, Pico, "Why we travel"

Adler, Judith, "Travel as Performed Art"

Cohen, Erik, "The Sociology of Tourism: Approaches, Issues, and Findings"

Cohen, Erik, "A Phenomenology of Tourist Experiences"

Nash, Dennison, "Tourism as an Anthropological Subject"

McCabe, Scott, "Who is a tourist? A critical review"

Franklin, Adrian, and Mike Crang, "The trouble with tourism and travel theory?"

Wang, Ning, "Rethinking authenticity in tourism experience"

MacCannell, Dean, "Staged Authenticity: Arrangements of Social Space in Tourist Settings"

Urry, John, “The Tourist Gaze Revisited"

Urry, John, "The 'Consumption' of Tourism"

 

Journals and Magazines on Travel

Tourist Studies -- Archive of Issues by Date

Annals of Tourism Research

Journal of Travel Research

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Current Issues in Tourism

The International Journal of Tourism Research

Studies in Travel Writing

Travel Classics

Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment

Geography for Travelers and Travelography Travel News

Literary Traveler, Literary Tours, Literary Travel Writing, Books, Travel, ToursLiteraryTraveler.com

 

Books about Travel

Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel: Edward M. Bruner

Defining Travel: Diverse Visions: Susan L. Roberson

Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

Encyclopedia of the Literature of Travel and Exploration

Intersecting Journeys: The Anthropology of... - Google Book Search

Native Tours: The Anthropology of Travel and Tourism: Erve Chambers

On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place: Lucy R. Lippard

Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement: Caren Kaplan

Sacred Places: American Tourist Attractions in the Nineteenth Century: John F. Sears

Temperamental Journeys: Essays on the Modern Literature of Travel: Michael Kowalewski

The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing: Peter Hulme, Tim Youngs

The Mind of the Traveler: From Gilgamesh to Global Tourism: Eric J. Leed

The Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space: Wolfgang Schivelbusch

The Tourist City: Dennis R. Judd,Susan S. Fainstein

The Tourist Gaze (Theory, Culture and Society Series)- John Urry

The Tourist Gaze: John Urry

The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class: Dean MacCannell

Touring Cultures: Chris Rojek

Tourists and Tourism: A Reader: Sharon Bohn Gmelch

Tourists with Typewriters: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing: Patrick Holland, Graham Huggan

Hosts and Guest Revisited- Tourism Issues in the 21st Century (Tourism Dynamics)

Hosts and Guests- The Anthropology of Tourism

 

More resources

Travel Links - Voice of the Shuttle

Tourism & Geography Links

Facts & Figures - World Tourism Organization

Leeds Met - Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

Editor's Choice: Our Favorite Travel Blogs

Best Travel Web Sites 2006

Research on Place: Travel

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