Barbara Korte

Anna Karina Sennefelder

The nexus between travel, writing and media in the contemporary world is dense: travel practice is increasingly interwoven with media; representations in old and new media are co-present and converge. Digitisation has had a profound impact on the practice and mediation of travel, but this volume aims to show that travel and its representation have always been enlaced with media. With contributions by experts in literary and cultural studies, journalism studies and informatics, the book takes a multi- and interdisciplinary approach and covers a wide range of media, from the hand-crafted album to social media. It illustrates how current transformations invite us to revisit earlier periods of travel writing and their media environments, and to explore the ways in which contemporary forms of mediation are prefigured by earlier practices and forms. The book addresses readers interested in travel writing, travel studies and cultural studies.

Contemporary and Historical Perspectives

Travel, Writing and the Media

English summary: In European cultural history, otiose leisure is regarded as the ideal prerequisite for a retreat into self-contemplation. Anna Karina Sennefelder maps out this topos by analyzing nineteenth century French narrative texts. The range of authors investigated reaches from Senancour, Chateaubriand and Stendhal to Marie d'Agoult and George Sand. The central question is which of otiose leisure's characteristics renders it so suitable for autobiographical self-reflection. What emerges is that in such literature, certain places were considered as particularly apt for experiencing leisure and thus conducive to the success of the narrative retrospective of one's own life. In essence therefore, the main focus is on the profiling and conceptual recording of the "retreats of narration". German description: Musse gilt in der europaischen Kulturgeschichte als ideale Voraussetzung fur die Beschaftigung eines Subjektes mit sich selbst. Diesem Topos geht Anna Karina Sennefelder durch die Analyse franzosischer Erzahltexte des 19. Jahrhunderts auf den Grund. Die Bandbreite der untersuchten Autoren und Autorinnen reicht von Senancour, Chateaubriand und Stendhal bis hin zu Marie d'Agoult und George Sand. Im Zentrum steht dabei die Frage, welche Aspekte der Musse sie so geeignet fur die autobiographische Selbstreflexion machen. Dabei zeigt sich, dass bestimmte Orte in der autobiographischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts als besonders passend fur die Erfahrung von Musse und fur das Gelingen der narrativen Ruckschau auf das eigene Leben dargestellt werden. Wesentlich geht es deshalb um die Profilierung und konzeptionelle Erfassung von 'Ruckzugsorten des Erzahlens'.

Anna Karina Sennefelder

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