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Writing travel : the poetics and politics of the modern journey / edited by John Zilcosky.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zilcosky, John, author.
- Series:
- German and European studies ; 8.
- German and European Studies ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travelers' writings--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings.
- Travel writing--History.
- Travel writing.
- Travel writers.
- Genre:
- History.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Examining a broad range of texts and travellers from across the world, the contributors discuss canonical authors such as Homer, Goethe, and Baudelaire, alongside lesser known writers such as Theodor Herzl, Hans Erich Nossack, and William Gibson. This theoretically rich volume draws connections between travel and narrative, and provides powerful insights into the relationship between travel and the spoken act of storytelling, as well as the more ambivalent act of story writing."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Writing travel / John Zilcosky
- Chrono-types: notes on forms of time in the travelogue / Barbara Korte
- On site: pilgrimage and authorship in Goethe's 'third pilgrimage' and Italian journey / Kelly Barry
- 'Trouver du nouveau?' Baudelaire's voyages / Jonathan Culler
- Seafaring Jews, world history and the Zionist imaginary / Todd Presner
- Ruins travel: Orphic journeys through 1940s Germany / Julia Hell
- Walking through thought: Thomas Bernhard's Walking and Peter Rosei's Who was Edgar Allan? / Bianca Theisen
- Charming the carnivore: Bruce Chatwin's Australian odyssey / Kenneth S. Calhoon
- Touching the real: alternative travel and landscapes of fear / Gabriela Nouzeilles
- Virtual travellers: cyberspace and global networks / Ursula K. Heise
- 'Tears at the end of the road': the impasse of travel and the walls at Angel Island / Georges Van Den Abbeele.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-9271-5
- 1-4426-8967-6
- OCLC:
- 923772641
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