Books written by Paul Smethurst
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The Postmodern Chronotope: Reading Space and Time in Contemporary Fiction
... just as the stories of Thomas Hardy map a fictional Wessex on to the counties of Dorset and Wiltshire . ... According to Crick , the watery Fenlands ' of all landscapes , most approximates to Nothing ' ( W : 11 ) .
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Travel Writing, Form, and Empire: The Poetics and Politics of Mobility
This collection of essays is an important contribution to travel writing studies -- looking beyond the explicitly political questions of postcolonial and gender discourses, it considers the form, poetics, institutions and reception of ...
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Travel Writing, Form, and Empire: The Poetics and Politics of Mobility
Gumilev and Slesserov; for additional twists and tidbits, see also a recent non- scholarly, but bookish and well-informed travelogue by Nicholas Jubber, The Prester Quest (London: Transworld Publishers, 2005).
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Asian Crossings: Travel Writing on China, Japan and Southeast Asia
The fourteen chapters in this book examine various topics and contexts of travel writings on China, Japan and Southeast Asia.
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New Directions in Travel Writing Studies
This collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse.