SIGNIFYING WITHIN AND BEYOND BORDERS: 
TRAVEL WRITING 
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SIGNIFYING WITHIN AND BEYOND BORDERS: TRAVEL WRITING
SIGNIFYING WITHIN AND BEYOND BORDERS: TRAVEL WRITING

Author(s): Oana Cogeanu
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Editura Alma Mater
Keywords: travel writing; Iterology; homo viator; representation; semiotics.

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on a long ignored signifying practice, travel writing, and aims at investigating the complex relations between writing and travel. The paper first emphasises the extrinsic relations between travel and writing as social and cultural signifying practices and subsequently analyses the intrinsic connections between travel and writing as mutually reflective processes of signification within and beyond literal and conceptual borders, with a view to highlighting the semiotic mechanism by which travel writing represents the world and itself.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 11/1
  • Page Range: 107-114
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English
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