Balkan Departures : Travel Writing from South-eastern Europe.

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In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place traveled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive - traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to self-congratulatory definitions of the West as modern...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bracewell, Wendy
Otros Autores: Drace-Francis, Alex
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2009.
Temas:
Travelers' writings, East European > History and criticism.
East Europeans > Travel > Europe > History.
Travel writing > History.
Est-Européens > Voyages > Europe > Histoire.
Voyage > Art d'écrire > Histoire.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
HISTORY > Europe > Eastern.
Travel
Travel writing
Travelers' writings, East European
Languages & Literatures.
Literature - General.
Europe > Description and travel.
Europe > Descriptions et voyages.
Europe
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title page-Balkan Departures; Contents; Chapter 1-Balkan Travel Writing: Points of Departure; Chapter 2-Hodoeporicon, Periegesis, Apodemia: Early Modern Greek Travel Writing on Europe; Chapter 3-Dinicu Golescu's Account of My Travels (1826): Eurotopia as Manifesto; Chapter 4-Writing Difference/Claiming General Validity: Jovan Ducic's Cities and Chinaeras and the West; Chapter 5-Towards a Modernist Travel Culture; Chapter 6-Getting to Know the Big Bad West? Images of Western Europe in Bulgarian Travel Writting of the Communist Era (1945-1985).
  • Chapter 7-New Men, Old Europe: Being a Man in Balkan Travel Writing; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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