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Writing travel : the poetics and politics of the modern journey /

"Examining a broad range of texts and travellers from across the world, the contributors discuss canonical authors such as Homer, Goethe, and Baudelaire, alongside lesser known writers such as Theodor Herzl, Hans Erich Nossack, and William Gibson. This theoretically rich volume draws connection...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Zilcosky, John (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2008]
Colección:German and European studies ; 8.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Writing travel / John Zilcosky
  • Chrono-types: notes on forms of time in the travelogue / Barbara Korte
  • On site: pilgrimage and authorship in Goethe's 'third pilgrimage' and Italian journey / Kelly Barry
  • 'Trouver du nouveau?' Baudelaire's voyages / Jonathan Culler
  • Seafaring Jews, world history and the Zionist imaginary / Todd Presner
  • Ruins travel: Orphic journeys through 1940s Germany / Julia Hell
  • Walking through thought: Thomas Bernhard's Walking and Peter Rosei's Who was Edgar Allan? / Bianca Theisen
  • Charming the carnivore: Bruce Chatwin's Australian odyssey / Kenneth S. Calhoon
  • Touching the real: alternative travel and landscapes of fear / Gabriela Nouzeilles
  • Virtual travellers: cyberspace and global networks / Ursula K. Heise
  • 'Tears at the end of the road': the impasse of travel and the walls at Angel Island / Georges Van Den Abbeele.