Yeats's country and “Yeats Country”: conceptualizing literary spaces

Wallace, Clarissa

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“…Smith (2003) found that both literary tourists and volunteers working at sites associated with a literary figure "derive significant rewards from the literary aspects of the sites" (p. 83). According to Wallace (2009), "The literary tourist, in his veneration of an authorial site, restores the depth of memory to spaces that are in danger of being flattened by artifice" (p. 49). Part of the reason why this happens is that the visitor would probably have first experienced the site through their reading of literature or works that celebrate the life of the author.…”

Section: Two Aspects Of Tourismmentioning

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Dark and literary: A tour to the Isle of the Dead

Xerri

2018

Journal of Language and Cultural Education

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Sites associated with the dark and literary aspects of tourism can prove beneficial to travellers since they can play an educational role while instigating an emotional and intellectual response. This article illustrates how a tour to the Isle of the Dead at Port Arthur in Tasmania provided the nescient traveller with insights into the literary and historical heritage of the place. The experience also acted as an inner journey in that it challenged the traveller to reassess his engagement with travel destinations.

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Section: Two Aspects Of Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dark and literary: A tour to the Isle of the Dead

Xerri

2018

Journal of Language and Cultural Education

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“…Dung and Reijnders (2013) conducted interviews with Chinese tourists, charmed with the image of Paris emerging from the media (literature, films and serials), in three stages: before arrival (pre-visit stage), during the visit (on-site stage), and after returning home (post-visit stage). The second most popular method of studying literary tourism has been the analysis of available source materials, such as Smith (2012) in South Africa, Cosma, Pop and Negrusa (2007) in Romania, Wallace (2009) in Dublin, and many others. Most of these methods have one serious drawback, which was noted by Reijnders (2015): they consider the issue only in retrospect and ignore all 'unsuccessful' cases, when after reading a book, the reader decided not to visit the places it refers to.…”

Section: Research Methods On Literary Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of the novel in shaping a city’s imageand its choice as a tourist destination: The case of Łódź

Włodarczyk

Duda

2019

Moravian Geographical Reports

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Following in the footsteps of one’s favourite literary characters has become a significant part of tourism. It remains unknown, however, how many readers decide to visit the places described in a book, or what factors determine their decision to do so. This issue was analysed using the example of Łódź, the third largest city in Poland, which struggles with a negative image. In contrast to the research on literary tourism conducted so far, a questionnaire was completed by readers and not by tourists visiting the places described. The readers remembered many real locations and had become familiar with the city’s topography. Some declared their reluctance to accept its stereotypically ‘bad’ image, while others were fascinated with its ‘unique atmosphere’. To many the city has become more familiar and a significant number of readers have changed their perception of it as a result. By means of linear modelling, several factors were established which encouraged readers to visit the city for tourism purposes. These factors included the size of the reader’s home location, changes of opinion, and the first impression the book made. This research project clearly points to the significant role of the novel in creating images of the places it depicts.

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“…The majority of literary tourism studies chose a specific region or only a literary place or a literary figure within that specific region as a research area (N = 120). The rest of the papers introduced comparative results by incorporating several different regions into the survey (Cohen-Hattab & Kerber, 2004;Hazard, 2016;McLaughlin, 2016;Robertson & Yeoman, 2014;van Es & Reijnders, 2016a, 2016bWallace, 2009). Literary tourism studies were conducted in 33 different regions across Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania.…”

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“…In this category, many of the studies investigated the houses of authors associated with Europe which are open to tourism today. These authors are Dylan Thomas, Jane Austen (Herbert, 2001); John Milton (Santesso, 2004); Robert Burns (Bhandari, 2008); Mary Russell Mitford (Booth, 2008); Honoré de Balzac (Petroman, Petroman, & Brătulescu, 2008); Vladimir Nabokov, Alexander Pushkin (Wallace, 2009); Virginia Woolf (Robertson & Radford, 2009); Lord Byron (Busby & Shetliffe, 2013); Anne Frank (Busby & Devereux, 2015;Hartmann, 2013) and Gabriele D'Annunzio (Gentile & Brown, 2015). Visits to authors' graves are also included in this type of literary tourism.…”

Section: Literary Tourism Typesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Literary tourism as a field of research over the period 1997-2016

Çevik¹

2020

EJTR

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Although literary tourism is not a new concept, the academic research in this field has not been able to reach adequate level since it has not come to the forefront yet as a tourism type in many parts of the world. This study aims at examining literary tourism as a field of research and determining its situation within tourism studies through a literature review. 132 articles over the period 1997-2016 included in the study were analysed regarding the journals they were published, research methods, research areas, literary tourism types and research themes by using content analysis technique. Although the study found that literary tourism is a wide-range academic field with its eight types and its relations with many tourism types and other social sciences as an interdisciplinary field, it also revealed academic research is limited except many regions of Europe. Literary tourism studies demonstrate that literary tourism has high research potential as an academic field since the results of studies show that literary tourism research cannot be generalised and they can vary according to literary figures. The studies also point out that literary tourism provides numerous benefits to destinations when developed as a special interest tourism type.

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Yeats's country and “Yeats Country”: conceptualizing literary spaces

Cited by 11 publications

References 4 publications

Dark and literary: A tour to the Isle of the Dead

Dark and literary: A tour to the Isle of the Dead

The role of the novel in shaping a city’s imageand its choice as a tourist destination: The case of Łódź

Literary tourism as a field of research over the period 1997-2016

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