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Narratives of Cyprus : modern travel writing and cultural encounters since Lawrence Durrell / Jim Bowman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowman, Jim, 1968- author.
- Series:
- International library of cultural studies ; 29.
- International library of cultural studies ; 29
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travel writing.
- Cyprus--Description and travel.
- Cyprus.
- Travel writing--History and criticism.
- Cyprus--Foreign public opinion, Western.
- Cyprus--Social conditions--1960-.
- Social conditions.
- Public opinion, Western.
- Social history.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 212 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Distribution:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan.
- Place of Publication:
- London : I.B. Tauris, 2015.
- Contents:
- 1 The Cultural Stage for Stories of Conflict: Narrated Travel Writing and Modern Cyprus 1
- 2 Seductive, Disreputable yet Resilient: Modern Travel Writing and its Critics 27
- 3 Fashioned for Story's Sake: Lawrence Durrell's Bitter Lemons and the Lay of a Landscape Troped and Narrated for Posterity 51
- 4 Narrating from an Intimate Distance: Turk Troping in Colin Thubron's Journey Into Cyprus 83
- 5 Day-tripping to the Dark Side: Navigating and Narrating an Island Divided 125
- 6 Toward an Ethics of Encounter for Travel and Travel Writing 166.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781848859180
- 184885918X
- OCLC:
- 894623001
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