Dimitrios Kassis holds a PhD from the Faculty of English Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He also received a Master“s degree in Education Studies (with Distinction) from Roehampton University, UK, and a Master“s degree in Translation Studies from the Department of French Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He speaks 16 foreign languages and his academic interests are connected with travel literature, translation and language studies. His publications include Representations of the North in Victorian Travel Literature, American Travellers in Scandinavia, and Icelandic Utopia in Victorian Travel Literature. He is currently working as an English teacher in the public sector.
10 Ebooks von Dimitrios Kassis
Dimitrios Kassis: Representations of the North in Victorian Travel Literature
Travel literature has always been associated with the construction of utopias which were founded on the idea of unknown lands. During their journeys in foreign lands, British travellers tended to …
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€96.96
Dimitrios Kassis: Icelandic Utopia in Victorian Travel Literature
This book focuses on Iceland as a nineteenth-century utopian locus in the light of racial theories attached to the country’s national framework. In particular, it investigates the ways in which five …
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€76.59
Dimitrios Kassis: Greek Dystopia in British Women Travellers‘ Discourse
Greece has always occupied a prevalent position in European philosophy. During the Enlightenment, the Greco-Roman culture gained a new impetus, which paved the way for the surge of the Grand Tour and …
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€106.44
Dimitrios Kassis: Images of Irishness in Nineteenth-Century Travel Literature
Since its annexation to the British Crown, Ireland has never ceased in forming the subject of an ardent national debate in Great Britain which resulted in the demonisation of the Celtic race as …
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€105.59
Dimitrios Kassis: Perceptions of Germany in British Travel Literature
As part of the "beaten track", Germany did not conform to the Grand Tourist ideals of eighteenth-century British travellers that were influenced by the spirit of the Enlightenment, and, …
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€106.86
Dimitrios Kassis: American Travellers in Scandinavia
The emergence of the racial theories of Nordicism and Anglo-Saxonism at the threshold of the twentieth century changed the cultural and political mapping of the world, and gave a new impetus to the …
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€83.34
Dimitrios Kassis: Glimpses of the Bulgarian Other in British Travel Literature
Until its emancipation from the Ottoman yoke, Bulgaria always occupied an unprivileged and unfavourable position in British imagination, from the very first mention of the country in Western …
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€108.96
Dimitrios Kassis: Highland Tour of Victorian Travel Writing
During the first quarter of the eighteenth century, Scotland was persistently viewed as a peripheral region, inhabited by savage Highlanders, epitomising the sublime and the grotesque as well as the …
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€118.37
Dimitrios Kassis: Deconstructions of the Russian Empire in Western Travel Literature
Situated between Europe and Asia, Russia has systematically challenged the European theories attached to nationhood due to its geopolitical and cultural peculiarities. After the rise of European …
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€106.91
Dimitrios Kassis: Dystopian Depictions of Serbia in British Travel Literature
Without any doubt, one of the European regions that has never ceased to trouble the Westerner traveller is the Balkan Peninsula, which functioned as a terra incognita within the British travel canon, …
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€106.75
