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Rarefied imperialism: Discursive representations of the relationship between exterior and interior in Western imperial frontier exploration and Everest mountaineering cultures.
This dissertation examines the discursive representations of the relationship between exterior apparent phenomena and interior essential phenomena in the writings of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British imperial explorers, and in British and American mountaineers attempting to climb Mount Everest. In case studies including Richard Francis Burton, T. E. Lawrence, John Noel, Francis Younghusband, George Mallory, and Woodrow Wilson Sayre, the dissertation charts a shift in the conceptual imagining of that relationship from the age of high imperialism through the decline of the British Empire and the rise of the Cold War. This shift ran from an imagining of a solid essence of personal identity to a concern with the uncertainty of what might lie beneath the benign surface appearances of landscapes.
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机译:本文考察了十九世纪末和二十世纪初英国帝国探险家以及试图攀登珠穆朗玛峰的英美登山家的著作中,外在表象与内在本质现象之间关系的话语表征。在包括理查德·弗朗西斯·伯顿(Richard Francis Burton),TE劳伦斯(TE Lawrence),约翰·诺埃尔(John Noel),弗朗西斯·扬休斯班德(Francis Younghusband),乔治·马洛里(George Mallory)和伍德罗·威尔逊·塞尔(Woodrow Wilson Sayre)在内的案例研究中,论文描绘了这种关系的概念想象从高帝国主义时代到大英帝国的衰落和冷战的兴起。这种转变从对个人身份的扎实本质的想象到对风景的良性表面外观下可能存在的不确定性的关注。
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