{"id":6918,"date":"2017-01-27T10:29:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T10:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=6918"},"modified":"2018-10-31T09:53:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:53:45","slug":"mathilde-poizat-amar-publishes-on-french-travel-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/01\/27\/mathilde-poizat-amar-publishes-on-french-travel-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathilde Poizat-Amar publishes on French travel writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/staff\/poizat-amar.html\">Dr Mathilde Poizat-Amar<\/a>, Lecturer in French in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/index.html\">Department of Modern Languages<\/a>, has just published a new book on French travel writing entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/view\/product\/78785\"><em>L\u2019Eclat du voyage<\/em><\/a><em>: Blaise Cendrars, Victor Segalen, Albert Londres <\/em>(Peter Lang, 2017), based upon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/news\/index.html?view=5672\">her PhD thesis undertaken at Kent<\/a> and at Paris-10.<\/p>\n<p>The monograph examines different interactions between travel and literary writing in the works of three early 20th-century French travel writers: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blaise_Cendrars\">Blaise Cendrars<\/a> (1887-1961), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victor_Segalen\">Victor Segalen<\/a> (1878-1919) and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Londres\">Albert Londres<\/a> (1884-1932).<\/p>\n<p>By looking at a large range of primary material\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0including novels, essays, poetry, diaries, and journalistic reports\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0this book establishes how these texts, written in the midst of a Modernist boom across Europe, present us with trailblazing ways of thinking and writing about travel.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, it argues for the necessity of thinking together literature and travel, travel and fragmentation, and at last, literature and fragmentation.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, please see the publisher\u2019s website here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/view\/product\/78785\">www.peterlang.com\/view\/product\/78785<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Mathilde Poizat-Amar, Lecturer in French in the Department of Modern Languages, has just published a new book on French travel writing entitled L\u2019Eclat du &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/01\/27\/mathilde-poizat-amar-publishes-on-french-travel-writing\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":6919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135858,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6918"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7279,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918\/revisions\/7279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}