In line with the seminar cycle, this meeting will propose a reflection on tourism and literature and will be divided into two panels. The first, curated by Prof. Cristina Trinchero (University of Turin, Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures), will focus on literary tourism, with particular attention to the practices of trekking and […]
Seen through British travellers’ eyes in the nineteenth century, the Carpathians in the Banat region and in Transylvania are sources of historical, geographic and ethnographic richness. English travel accounts have many common features, ranging from the wilderness of the landscape, the greatness of the mountains and their sublime, depicted in Major E. C. Johnson’s On […]
The “RESPYR” project, initiated by L. Roussillon-Constanty in 2021 aims to study the mountain landscape by crossing several approaches and several views and by proposing a dialogue between specialists of different eras and disciplines. The starting point of the project is anchored in the nineteenth century and focuses on the study of accounts, poems and […]