Naming Properties: Nominal Reference in Travel Writings by Basho and Sora, Johnson and Boswell

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Travel is one of literature's great metaphors for life; to investigate the properties of travel writing in different cultures affords a particular opportunity for intercultural comparison. In Naming Properties, Earl Miner examines closely four travel accounts: in Japanese, Basho's great Narrow Road through the Provinces, and, as control, the nonliterary account of his friend Sora; in English, Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0472106996

ISBN13:9780472106998

Release Date:September 1996

Publisher:University of Michigan Press

Length:344 Pages

Related Subjects

Foreign Language Foreign Language Learning Foreign Language Study Foreign Language Study & Reference Foreign Languages Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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