Travellers' Tales of Wonder : : Chatwin, Naipaul, Sebald /

Travellers' Tales of Wonder : : Chatwin, Naipaul, Sebald / / Simon Cooke.

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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 wonder in...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Cooke, Simon,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2013
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 4 B/W illustrations 1 additional cover image
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: The Wonder that Came Later
  • I. ‘Horizon of expectations’: Travels in Literary History
  • 1. A Question of Form: Genre and the Journey
  • 2. ‘An End to Journeying’: Travel and its Discontents in Late Modernity
  • 3. Forms of Recovery and Renewal: Travels in Contemporary Literature
  • II. Readings in Contemporary Travellers’ Tales of Wonder
  • 4. Bruce Chatwin and the ‘modern WONDER VOYAGE’: In Patagonia (1977)
  • 5. V. S. Naipaul and the ‘gift of wonder’: The Enigma of Arrival (1987)
  • 6. W. G. Sebald’s Travels through ‘das unentdeckte Land’: Die Ringe des Saturn (1995)
  • Afterword: The ‘unlimited vicissitudes of travelling’
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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