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Balkan Departures : Travel Writing from South-eastern Europe.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books, Inc.,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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, progressive, and rational. However, the Balkans have also long been traveled from. The region's writers have offered accounts of their travels in the West and elsewhere, saying something in the process about themselves and their place in the world. The analyses presented here, ranging from those o. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (183 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781845459178 1845459172 1282627767 9781282627765 9786612627767 661262776X |