Voyage and Emotions across Genres

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The contributors to the volume, coming from different areas of the Humanitiesand Social Sciences, address several timely and important issues thatbring together richly diverse perspectives and advance current debates ina range of fields, by carefully decoding literary texts covering a large timespan, as well as political discourse, the discourse of advertising, the discourseof education, and transpersonal discourse."-Professor Arleen Ionescu, Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityEvery transdisciplinary study on voyage and/or emotion will offer newinsights into the multifarious facets of these two concepts. Taking a sociolinguisticturn, this volume prompts the audience to cross the borders of avariety of genres in order to discover new strands of thought. While the firstpart highlights the multiple facets of the voyage as initiatory journey, as aquest for an existence code, as a spiritual passage that the traveller experiencesin search for the Self or for the Other, the second part of the volumeseeks to address the temporality and spatiality of emotions, the ideologicaldimension of the public and private space, outlining at the same time theperception of the voyage as an intercultural and interlinguistic exchange.