ENGL 90125 - Travel & Changing Place

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

Travel is a universal experience, even though not all human beings travel. It takes many forms: individual travel for pleasure (tourism); surveying a new terrain with a scientific or commercial purpose (exploring); building a new home in a "wilderness" or among alien or hostile peoples (settling or colonizing); wandering in a group or individually to seek not only a religious site but also spiritual experience (pilgrimage); journeying under compulsion further from an irretrievable home (exile); moving in a fragile or displaced community seeking --often desperately--another home (migration). Travel entices and alarms us posing questions about who we are and what counts as "home" as we encounter ourselves on the move. To travel is to encounter strangers, to define not only space but also the self and the community in a variety of ways, both welcome and unwelcome. If we are the "stay-at-homes", travelers may irritate, attract, or frighten us. Texts include Virgil, Aeneid; Ovid, poetic epistles from exile (Epistulae ex Ponto); Bartolome de las Casas, Brief Report on the Destruction of the Indians; Ch'Eng-En Wu, Monkey (trans. Arthur Waley); Mme de Graffigny, Lettres d'une Peruvienne; Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; Charlotte Bronte, Villette; Hualing Nieh, Mulberry and Peach; Chu T'ien-wen, Notes of a Desolate Man.

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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