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- 1 online resource.
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- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 03, 2021).
- Contents
- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Introduction -- The Departure -- The Sacred Journey -- The (Unanticipated) Arrival -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I: Homo Religiosus and Homo Viator -- Chapter 1: Faith and the Fortunes of Travel in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds -- Some Accounts of Travel and Travelers from Ancient Civilizations -- Travel in Scripture -- A Medieval Jewish Poet on a Spiritual Quest: Judah Halevi -- A Medieval Muslim Teacher and Spiritual Traveler: Al Ghazali -- Other Modes of Medieval Christian Travelers
- Medieval Christianity and the Journey of Homo Viator -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Pilgrimages of Croats by Sea to Loreto and Assisi in the Eighteenth Century: A Historiographic and Hermeneutical Analysis -- Homo Viator -- From Homo Symbolicus to Homo Religiosus -- Caves and the First Forms of Pilgrimages -- Monotheistic Religions and their Spread by Sea -- Croats and Pilgrimages -- Croatian Pilgrimages to Loreto and Assisi during the Eighteenth Century -- Perils at Sea: Pirates, Corsairs, the Plague -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography
- Chapter 3: The Tossing and Turning of the Sea: Gregory the Great's Use of Seafaring Imagery to Describe His Spiritual Journey -- Introduction -- Broken Down Ship of the Papacy-Gregory the Great as Ship Captain -- The Mariner of the "Universal" Church-Cyriacus of Constantinople as Ship Captain -- Influences on Gregory's Seafaring Imagery -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Happiness on the Sisyphean Path: Reflections on Augustinian Rest in the Face of Divine Absence -- Introduction -- The Far Country and the Absurd -- Knowing and Finding the Self
- Happiness in Presence and Absence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II: Journeys across Cultural Borders -- Chapter 5: When Robinson Crusoe Taught Swiss Youth to Read: The Travel Writing as Child Natural Education -- Switzerland, an Island for Robinson in the Middle of Europe -- Switzerland, an Archipelago of Schooling Systems -- Robinson Crusoe, a Pedagogical Role Model -- Robinson Crusoe Shows Up in Switzerland . . . -- How Robinson Crusoe Taught Swiss Youth to Read -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Transcending Linguistic Borders in Crashaw's Teresa Hymns
- Introduction -- "Love Is Eloquence" -- Silence and the Unspeakable -- Allegorical Readings -- The Vocal Materiality of Language -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Sacred Journeys and the Libraries of Haruki Murakami: Journeys, Metaphors, and Libraries -- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World -- Kafka on the Shore -- The Strange Library -- Problems and Potentials of the Library as Metaphor -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: A Poetic Journey to Japan's Imaginary Past: Natsume S M seki's Kusamakura -- Why a Poetic Journey? -- Genre and Style in Kusamakura
- ISBN
- LCCN
- 2021034371
- OCLC
- 2021034371
- Title
Writing journeys across cultural borders / edited by Elena V. Shabliy and Kimarie Engerman.
- Publisher
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Note
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 03, 2021).
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Shabliy, Elena V., editor.
Engerman, Kimarie, editor.
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Print version: Writing journeys across cultural borders Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021] 9781666900347 (DLC) 2021034370