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Jens Kirk, Dept. of Languages and Culture
Textanalysis
Tekstanalysis and History
Session Seven
Travel Writing: Robert Louis Stevenson
Jens Kirk, Dept. of Languages and Culture
Textanalysis
Agenda
Summary of Session Six Travel writing and allegory Victorian travel Group Work: R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a
Donkey in the Cevenne
Jens Kirk, Dept. of Languages and Culture
Textanalysis
Summary of Session Six
Paul Fussel’s concept of displaced romance: Quest Pastoral Picaresque
Jens Kirk, Dept. of Languages and Culture
Textanalysis
Travel writing and allegory
Allegory: primary and secondary orders of signification
Travelling = living and dying (life is a journey) Travelling = reading and writing (what is
suggested about the activities of reading and writing?)
Jens Kirk, Dept. of Languages and Culture
Textanalysis
Intertextuality
Stevenson’s dedication Intertextuality and allegory John Bunyan, The Pilgrims Progress (1678)
Jens Kirk, Dept. of Languages and Culture
Textanalysis
Romantic and Victorian travel
Tourists, travellers, and explorers Ruins Landscapes
Jens Kirk, Dept. of Languages and Culture
Textanalysis
Group work: R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne
Outline the uses of fictional elements: Comic novel (Does
Stevenson use comic anomalies? How and Why?)
Romance (how and why are the romance elements used?)
Quest Pastoral Picaresque
Allegory (Of reading? Of writing? Of life?)
Outline the uses of non-fictional elements Essay (is Stevenson
making a moral point?) Memoir: Do we learn
something about famous people and places?
Autobiography: Do we learn something about Stevenson’s life