All Articles tagged travel
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October 31, 2023 AEST This paper by the convenor of Australian Capital Territory’s first government-certified, carbon-neutral conference, centres upon that conference as a model for future such events
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October 28, 2021 AEST This paper observes how a recognition of the importance of objects as evocative and creative artefacts can provide a prompt for more engaged and authentic examples of travel writing.
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October 31, 2019 AEST In the 21st century, travel writing has become a medium for authors to investigate their own lives as much as to explore exotic destinations...
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October 31, 2019 AEST This article looks at how themes from literature and subsequent adaptions into popular culture via film and television are appropriated by tourism communicators to portray an authentic tourism experience.
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October 31, 2019 AEST This paper examines Australian cli-fi, predominantly from the 21st century, and its use of concepts familiar from travel writing.
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October 31, 2019 AEST It was a discussion about prepositions. We talked with retsina and fetta on the table, with the harbour blue and the boat for Delos leaving...
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October 31, 2019 AEST This essay embraces both a critical and creative writing approach to explore the question that has recently loomed over the genre of travel writing: Is travel writing dead?
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October 31, 2019 AEST This discussion explores the representability of travel writing as material engagement and as a creative endeavour of scholarly inquiry.
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October 31, 2019 AEST This article discusses the intersection of ethnographic, reflexive and anecdotal styles in travel writing produced out of contemporary international volunteer tourism, and analyses impacts of volunteer tourism...
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October 31, 2019 AEST Travel blogs have become an important new form of travel writing with some achieving more than a million page views per month, and their authors becoming top-ranking social influencers...
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October 31, 2019 AEST In this paper, I explore the larger socio-cultural complexities of travel selfies and what a travel selfie may contribute to a writer’s travel account.
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October 31, 2019 AEST Female wandering is a complex mode of travel characterised by the coupling of literal and figurative movement, and therefore cannot be conceptualised through canonical understandings of departure and return.
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October 31, 2019 AEST If I were a traveller and not a tourist, I wouldn’t get drunk in hostels or make any friends, I’d volunteer my time at an elephant sanctuary or an orphanage...
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October 31, 2019 AEST Travelling, we look for traces of past cultures or follow the traces of previous travellers. These traces can be material or textual, visual, performative or mnemonic...
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October 31, 2019 AEST This article applies ideas about literary tourism to travel undertaken by writers themselves, seeking to provide analysis and advice for writers today visiting places of literary significance.
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October 31, 2019 AEST There is a range of diverse examples of nocturnal travel writing in the 21st century focusing on nature, social and cultural lives and non-English speaking countries...
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October 31, 2019 AEST RE-mapping travel writing in the 21st century
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October 31, 2017 AEST With a shocking resurgence of nationalism the world over, are the citizens of the world, particularly the dispossessed, the responsibility of the traveler?
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October 29, 2017 AEST This essay details a research trip undertaken, by train and ferry, from Scotland to Malta. In doing so, it examines the creative process of writing my third novel...
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April 29, 2014 AEST This work describes activities carried out by students in a creative travel writing class focusing on the soul of place conducted for the USAC study abroad program, Viterbo, Italy.
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October 31, 2013 AEST Dear David Foster Wallace, / I have lugged a heavy heart over the Snowy Mountains, breathless with grief...
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October 31, 2010 AEST The Australian Gourmet Traveller (AGT) positions itself as ‘the country’s premier food and travel magazine’, speaking to those ‘who aspire to the good life’ (ACP magazines)...
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October 30, 2008 AEST This paper argues that travel should be taken seriously as a research tool for creative writers.