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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cooke, Simon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2013.
Subjects:
Chatwin, Bruce, > 1940-1989 > Criticism and interpretation.
Naipaul, V. S. > (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), > 1932-2018 > Criticism and interpretation.
Sebald, W. G. > (Winfried Georg), > 1944-2001 > Criticism and interpretation.
Chatwin, Bruce, > 1940-1989
Naipaul, V. S. > (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), > 1932-2018
Sebald, W. G. > (Winfried Georg), > 1944-2001
Sebald, W. G. > 1944-2001
Chatwin, Bruce > 1940-1989
Naipaul, V. S. > 1932-2018
Travel in literature.
Travel writing > History.
Voyage dans la littérature.
Voyage > Art d'écrire > Histoire.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
FICTION > General.
Travel in literature
Travel writing
Reiseliteratur
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.'

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