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Travellers' tales of wonder : Chatwin, Naipaul, Sebald /

Exploring travellers' tales of wonder in contemporary literature, this study challenges a sensibility of disenchantment with travel. It reassesses travel writing as an aesthetically and ethically innovative form in contemporary international literature, and demonstrates the crucial role of wond...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cooke, Simon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : the wonder that came later
  • [pt.] I. 'Horizon of expectations' : travels in literary history. A question of form : genre and the journey
  • 'An end to journeying' : travel and its discontents in late modernity
  • Forms of recovery and renewal : travels in contemporary literature
  • [pt.] II. Readings in contemporary travelers' tales of wonder. Bruce Chatwin and the 'modern WONDER VOYAGE' : In Patagonia (1977)
  • V.S. Naipaul and the 'gift of wonder' : The enigma of arrival (1987)
  • W.G. Sebald's travels through 'das unentdeckte Land' : Die Ringe des Saturn (1995)
  • Afterword : the 'unlimited vicissitudes of travelling.'