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ABSTRACT This comparative article seeks to define the extent to which Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell’s Moon Country (1996), whose subtitle claims to be “further reports from Iceland”, can be examined as a footsteps travel narrative to Louis MacNeice and W. H. Auden’s Letters from Iceland (1937). By focusing on the issues of literary heritage, authorship, authenticity, and photography, it analyses mainly formal affinities between the two underappreciated travelogues, which share a tendency towards fragmentation and identity games, but exhibit quite different approaches to the theme of their travel. The article also seeks to restore some balance to the biased perception of their co-authorship, emphasising the achievement of Armitage and MacNeice in these particular Icelandic expeditions.
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Founded in 1997 by Tim Youngs, Studies in Travel Writing is an international, refereed journal dedicated to research on travel texts and to scholarly approaches to them. Unrestricted by period or region of study, the journal allows for specific contexts of travel writing to be established and for the application of a range of scholarly and critical approaches. It welcomes contributions from within, between or across academic disciplines; from senior scholars and from those at the start of their careers. It also publishes original interviews with travel writers, special themed issues, and book reviews.
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