Art of Travel

Post-modern
o Intertexuality
o Non-linear
Fragmented
Selected experiences
o A series of small narratives (ptetis recits)
Variety of small personal experiences
o Individualised stories and memories
o A discursive text
Written like an essay
Structure
o Mimics the form of a travel guide
Eye-witness accounts
o Divided into particular stages
Anticipation
Departure
Return
o Uses guides
Wordsworth
o Images
o First person
Writing style
o Lyrical/poetic
o Descriptive
o Pessimistic/cynical/satirical
o Dry humour
o Melancholy
o Tone changes according to chapter subject
o Emotive and reflective language
o Philosophical jargon
o Juxtapositions
Contrast between one and the other

Focus on forms and features

Overarching ideas that relate to HOW, EXPERIENCE and
SIGNIFICANCE

Topic Sentences
Composers may employ selection and emphasis in their
writing to highlight particular experiences within a landscape
o Wordsworth chapter De Botton selects lyrical
elements to describe, selects particular contrasting
aspects of London which make the valley look better,
selects intertextual references that make his experience
seem more complimentary
 Composers may highlight their own perspective when
representing an experience with a landscape
o Composers purpose use of tone, emotive language,
reflective language, flashbacks, talk about the
composers perspective within
Composers may employ various stylistic features to represent
and experience
o Focusing on the form modernist, romantic,
fragmentation, post-modern features

Essay Structure
Introduction
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