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"In the Way of Ramblers: W.H. Auden and the Interwar Romance of the Open Road."

Authors: Vít Ladislav

Year: 2014

Type of publication: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Page from-to: nestránkováno

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Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
eng	"In the Way of Ramblers: W.H. Auden and the Interwar Romance of the Open Road."	W.H. Auden’s prose and poetry display his exceptional emotional and intellectual responsiveness to particular places, environmental types and, above all, human spatial experience. Approaching mass tourism as one of the integral cultural attributes of interwar Britain, in its initial part this presentation explores how Auden’s texts register the ‘outdoor movement’, pursuits of country retreats, the cult of nature and, especially, hiking incursions to rural Britain. The second part examines the ways in which Auden exploited such phenomena in the discussion of the crucial aspects of his interwar thought - citizenship, escapism, mythologization of landscape, the nature/culture dialectic and Romanticism.	W.H. Auden; poetics of place; mass tourism; interwar; outdoor movement; rambling; scout movement