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Gallix François, Vanessa Guignery, Jean Viviès et Matthew Graves, eds.. Récits de voyage et romans voyageurs. Aspects de la littérature contemporaine de langue anglaise. Aix-en-Provence: Presses Universitaires de Provence / collection "écritures du voyage", 2006.

Table of contents

Introduction: des frontières mouvantes, par Vanessa GUIGNERY

Préludes
Le renouveau du récit de voyage : du New Journalism au New Travel Writing, par Matthew GRAVES

Voyage au coeur du voyage : The Art of Travel (2002) d'Alain de Botton, par Vanessa GUIGNERY

Étapes fondatrices de l'hybridité
Bitter Lemons (1957) de Lawrence Durrell : le patchwork et le palimpseste, par Françoise DUPEYRON-LAFAY

The Songlines de Bruce Chatwin : du voyage philosophique à l'ethnologie poétique, par Jan BORM

Chemins de traverse
Sur les pas de John Rebus à Edimbourg : pérégrinations symboliques dans l'oeuvre de Ian Rankin, par Arnaud SCHMITT

Récits de voyage, révolutions scientifiques et mutations lexicales, par Jean-Louis VIDALENC

Le chant de marins au sein de quelques récits de voyage et romans voyageurs contemporains de langue anglaise, par Marlène JUNIUS

Variations génériques récentes
Stratégies de l'errance : le voyage baroque dans Nights at the Circus d'Angela Carter, par Christian GUTLEBEN

Stranger on a Train de Jenny Diski entre récit de voyage et roman, par Nicole TERRIEN

The Saddest Pleasure, A memoir by Moritz Thomsen : travel narrative as ego trip, par Michèle HITA

L'écriture du voyage dans The Enigma of Arrival et Half a Life de V.S. Naipaul, par Florence LABAUNE-DEMEULE

Fluctuations génériques et mystifications en tous genres : l'étonnant périple de Star of the Sea de Joseph O'Connor, par Catherine MARI

En route vers la Tasmanie
Inventer le voyage dans une langue d'emprunt : histoires de quête et d'exil dans English Passengers de Matthew Kneale, par Catherine PESSO-MIQUEL

English Passengers ou les raisons qui amènent un romancier anglais à écrire sur la cruauté de l'Empire britannique, par Matthew KNEALE

This volume aims to investigate the discourse of travel in contemporary English language narratives and novels (in Great Britain and countries of the Commonwealth). Rather than treat the travel book in generic isolation, we feel it worthwhile to explore the porosity of the genre and the interaction between travel narratives and novels involving journeys, which we shall label for convenience’s sake “travel novels”.

In 1977, when Bruce Chatwin published his landmark travel book In Patagonia, he revived a genre that had lost much of its lustre since the golden age of 1930s travel literature (Peter Fleming, Robert Byron, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene) by injecting it with a generous dose of fiction: an experiment that he would take to its logical conclusion a decade later with his hybrid novel-cum-travelogue, The Songlines. It is significant in this regard that Chatwin should persistently reject the label of travel writer in preference to that of novelist. A succession of dedicated travel writers were to follow in Chatwin’s creative footsteps: in the 1980s, Redmond O’Hanlon, Paul Theroux, Jonathan Raban, Patrick Leigh-Fermor and Colin Thubron; and into the 1990s, William Dalrymple, Jason Elliot and Simon Winchester. Thus it appears that the renaissance of the travel book derives from the blurring of generic and ontological contours, as well as a sustained challenge to the travel narrative’s purely referential status.

At the same time, a number of contemporary novelists such as Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift, Julian Barnes or Michael Ondaatje began to work the discourse of travel, nomadism and exile into their novels, juggling with generic frontiers and conventions in a broader trend towards the re-enchantment of literature and its codes. More recently, the novelist Alain de Botton has shown how travel has been inscribed in literature through his own hybrid work, The Art of Travel (2002). These travel novels, which are notable for their keen sense of space, tackle through fictional devices issues that are more routinely developed in travel narratives: journeys, migrations, discovery of unknown lands, wanderlust….

The field of enquiry of our conference will therefore revolve around the notions of travel writing, the intermingling of novel and travel narrative and the overlapping of the fictional and the referential domains. We shall examine contemporary English language works drawn from the dual spheres of travel writing and the novel, displaying the multiple forms of travel discourse. We also propose to include reworkings of past travel narratives, the better to reveal the historic background of the genre and the original contributions of contemporary writers.

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Gallix François, Vanessa Guignery, Jean Viviès et Matthew Graves, eds.. Récits de voyage et romans voyageurs. Aspects de la littérature contemporaine de langue anglaise. Aix-en-Provence: Presses Universitaires de Provence / collection "écritures du voyage", 2006. Table of contents Introduction: des frontières mouvantes, par Vanessa GUIGNERY Préludes Le renouveau du récit de voyage : du New Journalism au New Travel Writing, par Matthew GRAVES Voyage au coeur du voyage : The Art of Travel (2002) d'Alain de Botton, par Vanessa GUIGNERY Étapes fondatrices de l'hybridité Bitter Lemons (1957) de Lawrence Durrell : le patchwork et le palimpseste, par Françoise DUPEYRON-LAFAY The Songlines de Bruce Chatwin : du voyage philosophique à l'ethnologie poétique, par Jan BORM Chemins de traverse Sur les pas de John Rebus à Edimbourg : pérégrinations symboliques dans l'oeuvre de Ian Rankin, par Arnaud SCHMITT Récits de voyage, révolutions scientifiques et mutations lexicales, par Jean-Louis VIDALENC Le chant de marins au sein de quelques récits de voyage et romans voyageurs contemporains de langue anglaise, par Marlène JUNIUS Variations génériques récentes Stratégies de l'errance : le voyage baroque dans Nights at the Circus d'Angela Carter, par Christian GUTLEBEN Stranger on a Train de Jenny Diski entre récit de voyage et roman, par Nicole TERRIEN The Saddest Pleasure, A memoir by Moritz Thomsen : travel narrative as ego trip, par Michèle HITA L'écriture du voyage dans The Enigma of Arrival et Half a Life de V.S. Naipaul, par Florence LABAUNE-DEMEULE Fluctuations génériques et mystifications en tous genres : l'étonnant périple de Star of the Sea de Joseph O'Connor, par Catherine MARI En route vers la Tasmanie Inventer le voyage dans une langue d'emprunt : histoires de quête et d'exil dans English Passengers de Matthew Kneale, par Catherine PESSO-MIQUEL English Passengers ou les raisons qui amènent un romancier anglais à écrire sur la cruauté de l'Empire britannique, par Matthew KNEALE * This volume aims to investigate the discourse of travel in contemporary English language narratives and novels (in Great Britain and countries of the Commonwealth). Rather than treat the travel book in generic isolation, we feel it worthwhile to explore the porosity of the genre and the interaction between travel narratives and novels involving journeys, which we shall label for convenience’s sake “travel novels”. In 1977, when Bruce Chatwin published his landmark travel book In Patagonia, he revived a genre that had lost much of its lustre since the golden age of 1930s travel literature (Peter Fleming, Robert Byron, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene) by injecting it with a generous dose of fiction: an experiment that he would take to its logical conclusion a decade later with his hybrid novel-cum-travelogue, The Songlines. It is significant in this regard that Chatwin should persistently reject the label of travel writer in preference to that of novelist. A succession of dedicated travel writers were to follow in Chatwin’s creative footsteps: in the 1980s, Redmond O’Hanlon, Paul Theroux, Jonathan Raban, Patrick Leigh-Fermor and Colin Thubron; and into the 1990s, William Dalrymple, Jason Elliot and Simon Winchester. Thus it appears that the renaissance of the travel book derives from the blurring of generic and ontological contours, as well as a sustained challenge to the travel narrative’s purely referential status. At the same time, a number of contemporary novelists such as Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift, Julian Barnes or Michael Ondaatje began to work the discourse of travel, nomadism and exile into their novels, juggling with generic frontiers and conventions in a broader trend towards the re-enchantment of literature and its codes. More recently, the novelist Alain de Botton has shown how travel has been inscribed in literature through his own hybrid work, The Art of Travel (2002). These travel novels, which are notable for their keen sense of space, tackle through fictional devices issues that are more routinely developed in travel narratives: journeys, migrations, discovery of unknown lands, wanderlust…. The field of enquiry of our conference will therefore revolve around the notions of travel writing, the intermingling of novel and travel narrative and the overlapping of the fictional and the referential domains. We shall examine contemporary English language works drawn from the dual spheres of travel writing and the novel, displaying the multiple forms of travel discourse. We also propose to include reworkings of past travel narratives, the better to reveal the historic background of the genre and the original contributions of contemporary writers.

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