期刊名称：Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
电子版ISSN：0975-2935
出版年度：2011
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：98-109
出版社：Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
摘要：The present article proposes a revi sion of the Am erican imperialistic, scientific, literary and historical origins as they were encoded and re-coded in the wri tingsand rewritings of exploration journals. It theorises on the reciprocal influence that the official and the personal, the scientific and the fictional, the historical and the epical have in the production of a national referent as i t i s inscribed within the American travel-wri ting tradition. This article proposes an allegorical and li teral reading of "l ine drawing" in its study of texts by Willi am Byrd, Charles Mason and Thomas Pynchon, whi ch merges experienced and reported realities into a complex multi-text
关键词：exploration; journals; Willi am Byrd; Charles Mason; Thomas Pynchon; travel ;wri ting; ;Mason & Dixon
