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Secular modernism and the sacred jou...

Peat, Alexandra.

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Secular modernism and the sacred journey.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Secular modernism and the sacred journey./
作者:	Peat, Alexandra.
面頁冊數:	246 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-10, Section: A, page: 3642.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-10A.
標題:	Literature, Modern. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR07659
ISBN:	0494076593

Secular modernism and the sacred journey.
Peat, Alexandra.

Secular modernism and the sacred journey. - 246 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-10, Section: A, page: 3642.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2005.

This thesis explores the relationship between the secular and the sacred in modernism, examining the desire for spiritual transcendence through journeying that haunts much modernist fiction. By considering such tropes as tourism, pilgrimage, quest, expatriatism, and exile, I investigate the narrative and social models that fictional travellers negotiate during their journeys. My approach is transnational: taking into account both the centre and the periphery of the British Empire, I argue that modernist travel fiction frequently subverts the ideological structures of imperialist cultural relations. Instead of privileging either the imperialistic or metaphorical aspects of modern travel, this thesis carries out the important work of integrating key questions of spirituality into a material analysis of space and place. It thus allows fresh insight into the modernists' radical reformulation of the notion of identity within an ever-expanding geographical and social sphere.

ISBN: 0494076593Subjects--Topical Terms:

624011
Literature, Modern.

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