Travelling as (self-)discovery. Travel literature and painting (18th-20th century) 3304-3PJOS-OG

The lecture is devoted to the analysis of travel literature and travel painting of the 18th and 20th centuries in the context of getting to know the world and oneself, meeting the Other and establishing relationships with geographical and cultural otherness. After a short theoretical introduction discussing the basic concepts in the field of travel theory, examples of travel painting and travel literature, mainly French, will be analyzed, and the authors' attitude to travel, otherness and themselves on the road will be discussed.
The following topics will be covered during the course:
1) Types of travel and motivations of travelers. Basic concepts of travel theory
2) A traveler and a traveler from the time of Marco Polo to the 18th century
3) From Grand Tour to Romantic Trip
4) 'Romantic' trips to Italy and Spain
5) Journey to the East (Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Magreb)
6) Travel to Russia (and Poland)
7) Travel to China
8) Travel to Scandinavia
9) Travel to Africa
10) Postmodern journey? New Perspectives (Nicolas Bouvier, reportage, travel comic)

Type of course

general courses

Mode

Classroom

Course coordinators

Małgorzata Sokołowicz

Learning outcomes

After completing the course students will be able to:
- explain the terms Otherness, local color, interculturality, transculturality, intercultural dialogue, alienation, intermediality, cultural transfer, cultural convert.
- list the most important features of traveling at a given age
- introduce the most important travelers to a given location
- present the differences in describing a given location depending on the moment and the current estate.
- briefly describe the discussed texts/paintings
To the extent limited to the issues relevant to the presented topic, the subject implements the following learning outcomes from the Romance philology study program: K_W01, K_W02, K_W03, K_W04, K_W05, K_W06, K_W09, K_U03, K_U05, K_K03

Assessment criteria

- Attendance: only two absences without consequences in the form of a supplementary presentation.
- Two tests (open questions): the first in the middle of the term, the second - at the end.

Bibliography

Choses bibliography:
Le voyage en Orient. Anthologie des voyageurs français dans le Levant au XIXe siècle, Jean-Claude Berchet (éd), Paris : Robert Laffont, 3-20.
BUISINE Alain, 1988, Voiles, (in :) L’Exotisme. Actes du colloque de Saint-Denis de la Réunion, Alain Buisine, Norbert Dodille, Claude Duchet (éds), Paris : Didier-Érudition, 73-85.
GALLET Valentine, 2016, Harem. L’Orient amoureux, Paris : Éditions Place des Victoires.
MOUSSA Sarga, 1995, La Relation orientale. Enquête sur la communication dans les récits de voyages en Orient (1811-1861), Paris : Klincksieck.
Le Voyage en Égypte. Anthologie de voyageurs européens de Bonaparte à l’occupation anglaise, Sarga Moussa avec la collaboration de Kaja Antonowicz (éds), Paris : Robert Laffont, I-XXI.
THORNTON Lynne, 1993, La femme dans la peinture orientaliste, trad. Jérôme Coignard, Yve Thoraval, Tours : ACR PocheCouleur.
TRITTER Jean-Louis, 2012, Mythes de l’Orient en Occident, Paris : Ellipses.
BERTRAND Gilles, « La place du voyage dans les sociétés européennes (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle) », dans Annales de Bretagne et des Pays de l’Ouest, no 121 (3), 2014, p. 7-26.
GANNIER, Odile, La littérature de voyage, Ellipses, Paris, 2001.

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