Polar Travel
Travel writing looms large in literary histories of the polar regions. The bestknown Arctic and Antarctic texts have been and continue to be accounts of travel: official narratives, diaries, and memoirs by explorers John Franklin, Robert F. Scott, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and others and travelogues by...
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ftunivtasecite:oai:ecite.utas.edu.au:122108 2023-05-15T13:55:18+02:00 Polar Travel Leane, E 2019 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316556740.024 http://ecite.utas.edu.au/122108 en eng Cambridge University Press http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316556740.024 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT120100402 Leane, E, Polar Travel, The Cambridge History of Travel Writing, Cambridge University Press, T Youngs and N Das (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 361-375. ISBN 9781316556740 (2019) [Research Book Chapter] http://ecite.utas.edu.au/122108 Language Communication and Culture Literary Studies Literary Studies not elsewhere classified Research Book Chapter NonPeerReviewed 2019 ftunivtasecite https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316556740.024 2020-08-24T22:16:15Z Travel writing looms large in literary histories of the polar regions. The bestknown Arctic and Antarctic texts have been and continue to be accounts of travel: official narratives, diaries, and memoirs by explorers John Franklin, Robert F. Scott, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and others and travelogues by professional writers such as Barry Lopez and Sara Wheeler. While the Arctic and Antarctic icescapes have both inspired influential works of fiction and poetry, such as Mary Shelleys Frankenstein (1818) and Samuel Taylor Coleridges Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), these too centre on tales of travel, drawing on polar exploration accounts for their detail. Many Arctic indigenous peoples are traditionally nomadic, so that storytelling and travel become intertwined in their cultures. But the originally oral and linguistically diverse nature of these cultures means that many of the most prominent Arctic narratives are those produced by travellers from elsewhere. The uninhabited Antarctic takes the dominance of the travel narrative to its apogee: all writing about the Antarctic from experience is travel writing of a sort, in that any encounter with the place is premised on a journey Book Part Antarc* Antarctic Arctic eCite UTAS (University of Tasmania) Arctic Antarctic The Antarctic Lopez ENVELOPE(-63.567,-63.567,-64.850,-64.850) Rime ENVELOPE(6.483,6.483,62.567,62.567) Cherry-Garrard ENVELOPE(168.683,168.683,-71.300,-71.300) 361 375 |
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Travel writing looms large in literary histories of the polar regions. The bestknown Arctic and Antarctic texts have been and continue to be accounts of travel: official narratives, diaries, and memoirs by explorers John Franklin, Robert F. Scott, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and others and travelogues by professional writers such as Barry Lopez and Sara Wheeler. While the Arctic and Antarctic icescapes have both inspired influential works of fiction and poetry, such as Mary Shelleys Frankenstein (1818) and Samuel Taylor Coleridges Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), these too centre on tales of travel, drawing on polar exploration accounts for their detail. Many Arctic indigenous peoples are traditionally nomadic, so that storytelling and travel become intertwined in their cultures. But the originally oral and linguistically diverse nature of these cultures means that many of the most prominent Arctic narratives are those produced by travellers from elsewhere. The uninhabited Antarctic takes the dominance of the travel narrative to its apogee: all writing about the Antarctic from experience is travel writing of a sort, in that any encounter with the place is premised on a journey |
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