Writing Travel : : The Poetics and Politics of the Modern Journey / / John Zilcosky.
Interest in travel writing has grown rapidly within the disciplines of postcolonial and cultural studies; however, recent scholarship has failed to place travel writing within the larger literary tradition. Writing Travel assembles a superb collection of essays that demonstrate how travel attempts t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | German and European Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Writing Travel / Zilcosky, John
- Theoretical Overture
- 2. Chrono-Types: Notes on Forms of Time in the Travelogue / Korte, Barbara
- Enlightenment to Modernism
- 3. On Site: Pilgrimage and Authorship in Goethe's 'Third Pilgrimage' and Italian Journey / Barry, Kelly
- 4. 'Trouver du nouveau?' Baudelaire's Voyages / Culler, Jonathan
- 5. Seafaring Jews, World History, and the Zionist Imaginary / Presner, Todd
- 6. Ruins Travel: Orphic Journeys through 1940s Germany / Hell, Julia
- Postmodernism
- 7. Walking through Thought: Thomas Bernhard's Walking and Peter Rosei's Who Was Edgar Allan? / Theisen, Bianca
- 8. Charming the Carnivore: Bruce Chatwin's Australian Odyssey / Calhoon, Kenneth S.
- 9. Touching the Real: Alternative Travel and Landscapes of Fear / Nouzeilles, Gabriela
- 10. Virtual Travellers: Cyberspace and Global Networks / Heise, Ursula K.
- Epilogue
- 11. 'Tears at the End of the Road': The Impasse of Travel and the Walls at Angel Island / Abbeele, Georges Van Den
- Contributors
- Index
- German and European Studies