Under Eastern Eyes: A Comparative History of East European Travel Writing on Europe
Editat de Wendy Bracewell, Alex Drace-Francisen Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 iun 2008
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789639776111
ISBN-10: 9639776114
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 155 x 225 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Amsterdam University Press
Colecția Central European University Press
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 9639776114
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 155 x 225 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Amsterdam University Press
Colecția Central European University Press
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
AcademicNotă biografică
Alex Drace-Francis is Associate Professor of Modern European Literary and Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Romanian and Balkan social, cultural and literary history; on travel writing and circulation of ideas and images; and on European identity as a whole.
Cuprins
Foreword Wendy Bracewell, Alex Drace-Francis 1. Towards a natural history of east European travel writing Alex Drace-Francis 2. The travel narrative as a (literary) genre David Chirico 3. The limits of Europe in east European travel writing Wendy Bracewell 4. ‘They are laughing at us’: Hungarian travellers and early modern European identity Graeme Murdock 5. Travels through the Slav world Wendy Bracewell 6. The Odyssey of national discovery: Hungarians in Hungary and abroad, 1750-1850 Irina V. Popova-Nowak 7. European identity and Romantic irony: Juliusz Slowacki’s journey to Greece Maria Kalinowska 8. Metaphor and monumentality: The travels of Nicolae Iorga Andi Mihalache 9. Oh, to be a European! What Rastko Petrovic learnt in Africa Zoran Milutinovic 10. Excursions into national specificity and European identity: Mihail Sebastian’s interwar travel reportage ,iana Georgescu 11. The Cold-War traveller’s gaze: Jan Lenica’s 1954 sketchbook of London Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius 12. Images of the West in Bulgarian travel writing during socialism (1945-1989) Rossitza Guentcheva Notes on contributors
Descriere
Twelve studies explicitly developed to elaborate on travel writing published in book form by east Europeans travelling in Europe from ca. 1550 to 2000.