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dc.contributor.authorGenoni, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:21:40Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:21:40Z
dc.date.created2011-10-25T20:01:24Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationGenoni, Paul. 2011. The pilgrim's progress across time: Medievalism and modernity on the road to Santiago. Studies in Travel Writing. 15 (2): pp. 157-175.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20850
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13645145.2011.565580
dc.description.abstract

This paper offers a reading of recent accounts of journeys on one of the great Christian pilgrimage routes, to Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain. It focuses on the common narrative strategy of a disrupted sense of time expressed by the pilgrim-authors, and argues that this trope is intrinsic to texts that suggest that time has been ‘crossed’ and that the author has undertaken a ‘medieval’ experience. It is argued that this trope of crossing time is closely linked to two central themes of contemporary Santiago texts: the construction of the author as an authentic pilgrim, and the experience of forms of community that are outside the norm in the pilgrim's everyday life. These common themes in Santiago pilgrim narratives are said to be reflective of the authors’ distrust of modernity.

dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.subjectWay of St James
dc.subjecttime
dc.subjectauthenticity
dc.subjectSantiago de Compostela
dc.subjectpilgrims
dc.subjectCamino
dc.subjectcommunity
dc.subjectmodernity
dc.subjectmedievalism
dc.subjectpilgrimage
dc.titleThe pilgrim's progress across time: Medievalism and modernity on the road to Santiago
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume15
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.startPage157
dcterms.source.endPage175
dcterms.source.issn1364-5145
dcterms.source.titleStudies in Travel Writing
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This is an electronic version of an article published in Genoni, Paul. 2011. The pilgrim's progress across time: Medievalism and modernity on the road to Santiago. Studies in Travel Writing is available online at: www.tandfonline.com

curtin.departmentSchool of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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