technologia: Travel literature

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The genre of travel literature or travelogue encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs. Throughout history, many authors have contributed works to this genre through different forms of writing: poems, books, memoirs, biographies, novels, journals, online blogs, etc. Knowledge on key historic events, like slavery in the United States, have been expanded on through publishing and discoveries of personal travel accounts and literature. Authors native to a location or visiting from abroad make contributions to the local tourism through travel literature. Some travel literature is fictional adventures influenced by the author's personal experiences, while ot…

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J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy books on Middle-earth, especially The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, drew on a wide array of influences including language, Christianity, mythology, archaeology, ancient and modern literature, and personal experience. He was inspired primarily by his profession, philology; his work centred on the study of Old English literature, especially Beowulf, and he acknowledged its importance to his writings. He was a gifted linguist, influenced by Germanic, Celtic, Finnish, Slavic, and classical language and mythology. His fiction reflected his Christian beliefs and his early reading of adventure stories and fantasy books. Commentators have attempted to identify m…

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A sportswoman in India; personal adventures and experiences of travel in known and unknown India

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A near-death experience (NDE) is a profound personal experience associated with death or impending death, which researchers describe as having similar characteristics. When positive, which most, but not all reported experiences are, such experiences may encompass a variety of sensations including detachment from the body, feelings of levitation, total serenity, security, warmth, joy, the experience of absolute dissolution, review of major life events, the presence of a light, and seeing dead relatives. While there are common elements, people's experiences and their interpretations of these experiences generally reflect their cultural, philosophical, or religious beliefs. NDEs usually occur…

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Water and Multisensory Experiences of Architecture: Eighteenth–Century Ottoman Fountains in Travel Literature

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Travel Education: A Phenomenological Study on Self-Directed Learning and Personal Enrichment Through Foreign Travel Experiences

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Team USA Paralympic athletes' experiences with sport participation: a socioecological qualitative study.. Objectives The purpose of this study was to understand Paralympic athletes' positive and negative experiences associated with their participation in Paralympic sport. Design Phenomenological qualitative study contextualised using the socioecological framework SETTING: Online. Participants 19 Team USA Paralympic sport athletes (females, n=11; males, n=8; age, 31±9 y) representing 11 sports and 4 categories of eligible permanent medical conditions recognised by the International Paralympic Committee impairment classifications: (1) muscle and movement (impaired passive range of motion and…

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From anticipation to memory: a systematic review of tourist emotional experience.. Tourist emotional experience has emerged as a central concept in understanding how individuals psychologically engage with tourism environments. It is reflects a broader shift from functional attributes to experiential and affective dimensions of travel. However, existing research tends to focus on isolated emotions or single stages of the tourist journey. It therefore lacks a dynamic perspective. This study addresses this gap through a systematic review of 211 peer-reviewed articles (2000-2025), applying the antecedents-decisions-outcomes (ADO) framework to synthesize tourist emotional experience across pre-…

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Experience refers to conscious events in general, more specifically to perceptions, or to the practical knowledge and familiarity that is produced by these processes. Understood as a conscious event in the widest sense, experience involves a subject to which various items are presented. In this sense, seeing a yellow bird on a branch presents the subject with the objects "bird" and "branch", the relation between them and the property "yellow". Unreal items may be included as well, which happens when experiencing hallucinations or dreams. When understood in a more restricted sense, only sensory consciousness counts as experience. In this sense, experience is usually identified with perceptio…

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“Author Gave Life to Fictional County”. This chapter argues that William Faulkner saw all the world in his fictional county where we can see it now—where he made it live. It suggests that Faulkner's novels and stories were built at every step and stage out of his long passion of seeing life he knew by seeing as well as he could into it and around it. What is great and puny, what is tragic and uproarious about us all in our own dogged lives everywhere, is a living life itself in Faulkner's fiction. And in literature it is this that matters and always will matter. Humanity was his subject, but he was a poet when he was born to see what he saw. His work has a poet's authority by which it trave…

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Brown Like Me? The Author-Function, Proper Names, and the Rise of Fictional Nobodies. This chapter demonstrates the ways in which the two principal criteria for defining Latinx literature—identity and theme—are insufficient in making sense of this body of writing. It looks at three representative cases to demonstrate conclusively that we need a better way to understand the literature we have heretofore labelled Latinx. It examines a white writer (Daniel James) who, under a Latinx name (Danny Santiago), penned in the 1980s a popular Chicano novel of the barrio. It shows how the author of the novel The Madonnas of Echo Park , Brando Skyhorse, further confounds our understanding of identity ma…

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Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. In addition to conventional literary genres, modern children's literature is classified by the intended age of the reader, ranging from picture books for the very young to young adult fiction for those nearing maturity. Children's literature can be traced to traditional stories like fairy tales, which have only been identified as children's literature since the seventeenth century, and songs, part of a wider oral tradition, which adults shared with children before publishing existed. The development of early children's literature, before printing was invented, is difficu…