“FRENCH LETTERS” BY ISMAIL GASPRYNSKIY AS TRAVEL SKETCHES

Nursing empire: travel letters from Africa and the Caribbean

This essay analyses colonial nurses' travel letters, written from West Africa and the Caribbean between the turn of the century and 1920, in order to better understand the role of nurses in forming satellite versions of home. Though their primary function was to 'nurse empire' by helping to repair and maintain the bodies needed for imperial labour, nurses also contributed to written discourses ...

Sketches by Boz

Representation of Tehran during Qajar reign (Naseri period) in French travelers’ travel journals

Travel journals from different historical periods contain valuable insights that could be analyzed from different aspects and through that we can understand other people’s points of view about us. Description of different cities in travel literature represents French travelers’ views about these cities besides informing us about the quality and quantity of those cities at the times. “Represen...

Simin Daneshvar's Experience of the Modern World; A Sociological Study of America Travel Letters (1952-1953)

How thinkers and writers experience social realities due to the inspiring effects on the works and therefore on the audience's minds and actions is one of the notable areas of cultural studies. Such studies about women in Iran have been less relevant and, as an interdisciplinary subject, have not been able to critically reviewed and commented on their research findings in the form of scientific...

Interpreting Physical Sketches as Architectural Models

We present an algorithm for the automatic interpretation of a rough architectural sketch as a consistent 3D digital model. We compare our results to the designer’s intended geometry. We further validate the algorithm by studying the variations in possible interpretations made by other humans for a set of relatively ambiguous sketches. In our system, the user sketches an architectural design by ...