Textualising Experience Digitalising Text Cyprus by Chatzipanagioti Sangmeister Julia Mary Roussou Sinclair Spyridon (1 results)

cloth. 24.5 x 17.5 cm. cloth. 255 pages. Select papers of the 4th International Scientific Conference of the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation. ". a more than welcome addition to the study of travel literature, especially in relation to the history and culture of Cyprus over the centuries. The whole package is enticing. and all the contributions are of high quality." - Konstantinos Chryssogelos, Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 8 (2022) "[La publication] [.] met en lumière la nature distincte des récits de voyage en tant que genre littéraire indépendant tout en démontrant que ces relations offrent une profusion dinforma- tions pour un connaissance approfondie de la société chypriote à lépoque moderne." | Translation: "[The publication] [.] highlights the distinct nature of travelogues as an independent literary genre, while demonstrating that these relations offer a wealth of information for an in-depth knowledge of Cyprus society in the modern period." - Philippe Trélat, Cahiers du Centre dÉtudes Chypriotes This publication features select papers presented at the 4th International Conference of the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, entitled 'Textualising the Experience - Digitalising the Text: Cyprus through Travel Literature (15th-18th c.)', held in collaboration with the University of Cyprus (Nicosia, 2019). The volume consists of 15 essays in three parts ('Zefyros', 'Travellers and Travel Literature', 'Representations of Space and People'). Using as their basis an innovative scientific methodology for travel literature, which was implemented in the framework of the Zefyros research programme, the scientists who participated in the conference considered issues regarding Cyprus drawn from a corpus of 125 travel texts dating from the 15th to the 18th centuries. The conference and its papers reveal the varied skein of interest which travel literature continues to hold for us. The potential for new approaches is also revealed, even though four decades of intensive research and writing on that literary genre have already gone by.