Dissertation
Author: Tanja Kapp

New Psychogeography: Inter- and Transmediality in Contemporary Narratives of Walking

Walking inspires the capacity to rethink our surroundings. Within the history of foot travel, subversive aims to scrutinize the hegemonic ways in which spaces have been physically and imaginatively charged have gained many names, including psychogeography, critical walking, deep topography, or landscape punk. While experiences of subversive walking are deemed essentially internal or inherently solitary affairs, they are oftentimes intersected or succeeded by acts of recording. Emerging as pieces of travel writing, these records are assembled of multiple medial units, such as words and image. Today, it is especially through the self-published, ‘democratized’ media of the zine and the blog that psychogeographical travel is articulated and shared. This project looks at how these distinct forms of new media portray or reproduce travel experience by paying close attention to their inter- and transmedial condition.

Institutions

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Englisches Seminar

Fields of research

Literature from UK and Ireland, Literary theory, Poststructuralism, Feminist studies, Media studies, Narratology, Literature and cultural studies, Literature and media studies, Intermediality, Comic, autobiography, travel literature, Digital literature, Literature of the 21st century
Submitted by: Tanja Kapp
Date of publication: 22.06.2020
Last edited: 22.06.2020