A Generic History of Travel Writing in Anglophone and Polish LiteratureSeries:

• Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, Volume: 93

A Generic History of Travel Writing in Anglophone and Polish LiteratureSeries:

• Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, Volume: 93

Author:Grzegorz MorozAuthor:Grzegorz Moroz

A Generic History of Travel Writing in Anglophone and Polish Literature offers a comprehensive, comparative and generic analysis of developments of travel writing in Anglophone and Polish literature from the Late Medieval Period to the twenty-first century. These developments are depicted in a wider context of travel narratives written in other European languages. Grzegorz Moroz convincingly argues that, for all the similarities and cross-cultural influences, in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century non-fiction Anglophone and Polish travel writing have dynamically evolved different generic horizons of expectations. While the Anglophone travel book developed relatively steadily in that period, the Polish genre of the podróż was first replaced by the listy (kartki) z podróży, and then by the reportaż podróżniczy.

Kategoria: FILOLOGIE OBCE Autorzy: AGATA ROZUMKO Rok wydania: 2019 Numer ISBN: 978-83-7431-559-3 Liczba stron: 592 Format: B5, oprawa twarda

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