The Modernist Traveler French Detours, 1900-1930 / Kimberley J. Healey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Healey, Kimberley J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and society--France--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Travelers' writings, French.

French--Travel--History--20th century.

French.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 175 p. )

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The Modernist Traveler considers figures whose writing about travel rebelled against a literary tradition of exoticism, adventure stories, and novelistic travelogues. Instead these writers initiated a modernist strain in travel writing and a shift in the literary establishment and the culture at large. Kimberley J. Healy focuses on those French writers and thinkers who traveled in order to experience a displacement of both the inner self and the physical body while writing against the prevalent tradition of travel literature."

"The modern self, modern time, colonial spaces, and the physical body are Healey's concerns as she reads works by Victor Segalen, Paul Morand, Blaise Cendrars, Henri Michaux, Saint-John Perse, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Nizan, Albert Londres, Andre Malraux, Valery Larbaud, and Isabelle Eberhardt. This book shows how, in the field of French literature, these texts about travel best capture the modernist experience of being alone in a world of new technologies, cultural diversity, and anxiety about the self."--Jacket.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-169).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786611376406

9781281376404

128137640X

9780803203419

0803203411

OCLC:

53875010