Tekstanalyse Session Seven Travel Writing: Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Tekstanalyse Session Seven Travel Writing: Robert Louis Stevenson

Agenda Summary of Session Six Travel writing and allegory Victorian travel Group Work: R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne

Summary of Session Six Paul Fussel’s concept of displaced romance: –Quest –Pastoral –Picaresque

Travel writing and allegory Allegory: primary and secondary orders of signification Travelling = living and dying (life is a journey) Travelling = reading and writing (what is suggested about the activities of reading and writing?)

Romantic and Victorian travel Tourists, travellers, and art –Ruins –Landscapes The beautiful: Culture, art: pleasure The picturesque: mediation between the beautiful and the sublime The sublime: Nature: awe, horror, fear

Caspar David Friedrich ( ), Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818)

Anon. The Lonely Wanderer (Photo)

J.M.W. Turner, Tintern Abbey (1794)

Dr. Syntax

Intertextuality Stevenson’s dedication Intertextuality and allegory John Bunyan, The Pilgrims Progress (1678)

R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne Thematic hypotheses

Group work: R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne Outline the uses of fictional elements: –Comic novel (Does Stevenson use comic anomalies? How and Why?) –Romance (how and why are the romance elements used?) Quest Pastoral Picaresque –Allegory (Of reading? Of writing? Of life?) Outline the uses of non- fictional elements –Essay (is Stevenson making a moral point?) –Memoir: Do we learn something about famous people and places? –Autobiography: Do we learn something about Stevenson’s life