Writing Journeys across Cultural Borders

Elena V. Shabliy is visiting researcher at Boston University.Kimarie Engerman is professor of psychology and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of the Virgin Islands.

The pandemic of 2020 has largely interrupted a human activity in the act of journeying. What better time to reexamine literary narrations of the human journey? I thoroughly commend the work of Elena V. Shabliy and Kimarie Engerman in collecting and editing the nine chapters in this fascinating interdisciplinary collection, which reexamine pilgrimages and travel in the literary world, from the ancient to the modern. This book shall be of great interest to students and scholars of literature, as well as to those simply interested in learning more about journeying and concomitant observations of the transcendent.

• Introduction Crossing Sacred FrontiersElena V. Shabliy Homo Religiosus and Homo ViatorChapter 1Faith and the Fortunes of Travel in the Ancient and Medieval WorldsJune-Ann GreeleyChapter 2Pilgrimages of Croats by Sea to Loreto and Assisi in the 18th Century: A Historiographic and Hermeneutical AnalysisZrinka Podhraški CizmekChapter 3The Tossing and Turning of the Sea: Gregory the Great’s Use of Seafaring Imagery to Describe his Spiritual JourneyPaul A. BrazinskiChapter 4Happiness on the Sisyphean Path: Reflections on Augustinian Rest in the Face of Divine AbsenceTrevor B. WilliamsJourneys across Cultural Borders Chapter 5When Robinson Crusoe Taught Swiss Youth to Read: The Travel Writing as Child Natural EducationGiorgia Masoni & Sylviane TinembartChapter 6Transcending Linguistic Borders in Crashaw’s Teresa HymnsFabrice Schultz Chapter 7A Poetic Journey to Japan’s Imaginary Past: Natsume Soseki’s KusamakuraKelly HansenChapter 8Sa