Voyage and Emotions across Genres

“The contributors to the volume, coming from different areas of the Humanities

and Social Sciences, address several timely and important issues that

bring together richly diverse perspectives and advance current debates in

a range of fields, by carefully decoding literary texts covering a large timespan,

as well as political discourse, the discourse of advertising, the discourse

of education, and transpersonal discourse.”

—Professor Arleen Ionescu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Every transdisciplinary study on voyage and/or emotion will offer new

insights into the multifarious facets of these two concepts. Taking a sociolinguistic

turn, this volume prompts the audience to cross the borders of a

variety of genres in order to discover new strands of thought. While the first

part highlights the multiple facets of the voyage as initiatory journey, as a

quest for an existence code, as a spiritual passage that the traveller experiences

in search for the Self or for the Other, the second part of the volume

seeks to address the temporality and spatiality of emotions, the ideological

dimension of the public and private space, outlining at the same time the

perception of the voyage as an intercultural and interlinguistic exchange.