Representation of Landscape in English Travel Literature:The Middle East as an Example


Abstract in English

In this research, I will deal with British travel accounts to the Middle East around this period, attempting to analyze their representation of the Middle Eastern landscape in the light of Said's concept of "imaginative geography" represented in his writings on Orientalism in Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism and his article "Invention, Memory and Place".

References used

Bell, Gertrude. Syria: the Desert and the Sown. London: William Heinemann. 1919
Cosgrove, Denis. "Modernity, Community and the Landscape Idea". Journal of Material Culture 11(2006): 49-66
Fabian, Johannes. Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object. New York: Columbia UP. 1983

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