November
8, 2002
Exploring New Meanings
of Travel in Contemporary Travel Writing
Nancy Novogrod '71 |
"Travel"
embraces a world of meanings. While it can be mundane (to travel
simply means to move from one place to another), it can also hold
within it the promise of transformation. It is necessity and extravagance;
entertainment and pilgrimage; exploration and escape; challenge
and repose. As humans, we journey metaphorically—moving,
for example, from one developmental stage to another. We move
around the world as tourists, merchants, voyagers, immigrants,
and refugees; and we read ourselves around the world in travelers'
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