The search for identity & self in Literary & Filmic Expression
I. Guidelines:
• Select a text (novel or film) discussed in class and compare it with another travel text of your interest. Relate both texts to a specifc topic you are going to work on (reliability, first person narrator, anagnorosis, representation of the other, relation between I and the other, tourism, travellers versus tourist, exiles, love, travel as a healing experience…) (Your topic must be approved by the professor).
• Use at least 2 academic sources (one can be the class Reading packet and the other should be an external source)
• The required length of the research paper is 2000-3000 words i.e, aprox 6-7 typed pages of 12 point (double space).
topic is:
• Movie: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and Little Miss Sunshine
Bibliography
These are general suggestion. You should make your own search according to your topic.
You can look for bibliography in your online libraries and in jstor.
(Let me know if you have difficulties finding sources)
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Blanton,C. Travel Writing: the Self and the Other. McMillan: New York, 1997.
Bloom, H. Ernest Hemingway ́s The Sun Also Rises. Bloom’s Literary Criticism: New York,
2007.
Castillo-Puche, Jose Luis. Hemingway in Spain. Garden city: New York, 1974
Chiu, C. (2007). “Transnational Mobility: Reading Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation as aTourist Romance,” Tamkang Review: A Quarterly of Literary and Cultural Studies,37(3), 35-59.
Dardess, G. (1974). “The Delicate Dynamics of Friendship: A Reconsideration of Kerouac ́s
on the Road,” American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and
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Peers, Allison. Spain: A Companion to Spanish Travel. George G. Harrap: London, 1930. Pere Gifra, Adroher. Between History and Romance. Associated University Press: London,2000.
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Rennella, M., & Walton, W. (2004). “Planned Serendipity: American Travelers and the Transatlantic Voyage in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” Journal of Social History, 38(2), 365-383.
Rotella, P. V. (1994).
Rudat, W. E. H. (1994). “Hemingway’s Revenge on Gertrude Stein: Inter-textuality Between A Moveable Feast and The Sun Also Rises,” Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 15 (1-2), 39-50.
Russell, Alison. Crossing Boundaries Postmodern Travel Literature. Palgrave: New York,2000.
Salenius, Sirpa, ed. American Authors Reinventing Italy: The Writings of Exceptional Nineteenth-Century Women, Padua, 2009.
Steinke, J. (1985). “Brett and Jake in Spain: Hemingway’s Ending for The Sun Also Rises,”
Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood,” Literature/Film Quarterly, 34(2), 93-103. Torre, J. (2009). “The Politics of Travel Writing in Fascist Spain,” In U. Brisson, & B.
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