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Travel and Modernist Literature.
Through close readings of works from Henry James to W.E.B. Du Bois, and from Virginia Woolf to Jean Rhys, this book discusses how fictional travelers negotiate and adapt various tropes of travel (such as quest, expatriation, displacement, and exile) as models for their own journeys. Specifically, Pe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Through close readings of works from Henry James to W.E.B. Du Bois, and from Virginia Woolf to Jean Rhys, this book discusses how fictional travelers negotiate and adapt various tropes of travel (such as quest, expatriation, displacement, and exile) as models for their own journeys. Specifically, Peat considers the ethical dimensions of modernist travel from two distinct vantages. The first focuses on the relationship between the secular and the sacred in modernist travel literature, arguing that the recurrent narrative of secular travel is haunted by a desire for spiritual transcendence. Th. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (210 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780203843291 0203843290 |