Methods for Teaching Travel Literature and Writing

Exploring the World and Self

• Author(s): Eileen Groom,
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Pages: 182
• ISBN_10: 0820470864
  ISBN_13: 9780820470863
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / Adult & Continuing Education , Education / Multicultural Education , Education / Teaching / General , Education / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities , Education / Student Life & Student Affairs , Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language , Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies , Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / General , Travel / Essays & Travelogues ,

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The contributors to Methods for Teaching Travel Literature and Writing: Exploring the World and Self discuss how and why they have integrated travel literature and writing into their courses. Subjects range from the study of travel literature granting insight into how travel authors, such as Bill Bryson and Paul Theroux, convince readers to "buy into" their worlds and reflect the readers' positions in society, to contemplating the meanings of the words "traveler" and "tourist." Other chapters examine how actual traveling can shape students' writing and vice versa, whereas still others address how the study of the genre and actually writing it promotes interdisciplinarity.