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    This article summarizes an interview with a literature expert about the accuracy of details in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1913 travel poem "Travel". The expert is asked which details are fictionalized or sensationalized versus factual. They are also asked to rate the overall accuracy of the poem's portrayal of travel on a scale of 1 to 5. Finally, they are asked what additional context they would need to fully evaluate the accuracy and what purpose fictionalizing certain details might have served for Stevenson and readers.

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    This article summarizes an interview with a literature expert about the accuracy of details in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1913 travel poem "Travel". The expert is asked which details are fictionalized or sensationalized versus factual. They are also asked to rate the overall accuracy of the poem's portrayal of travel on a scale of 1 to 5. Finally, they are asked what additional context they would need to fully evaluate the accuracy and what purpose fictionalizing certain details might have served for Stevenson and readers.

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    The Blackstone Valley Journal

    Tuesday October 17, 2017

    An interview with our number one text


    critic on Robert Louis Stevensons 1913
    release, Travel
    *This article refers to expert w
    ritings o n archaeology
    such as Archaeology: Then and N ow and Archaeology
    101.

    1. Which details in Travel are fictionalized


    (imagined, not real)? Which details are
    sensationalized (not accurate, but exciting)?

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    2. Which details are factual (accurate or true)?

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    3. On a scale of one to five, how w
    ould you rate the overall accuracy of
    this representation of travel? Do S tevensons readers walk away with a
    realistic sense of what traveling i s like after reading the poem?

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    4. What additional information would you need to investigate to determine


    the accuracy of Travel?

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    5. Why might Stevenson choose to fictionalize or sensationalize some of the


    details in Travel?

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    6. How does reading Travel support, enhance, or change y


    our understanding
    of archaeology and/or travel? What purpose does the poem s erve for its
    readers?

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