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  1. Travellers' tales of wonder
    Chatwin, Naipaul, Sebald
    Published: ©2013
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

    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 the travel... more

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    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 the travel narratives of writers such as Bruce Chatwin, V.S. Naipaul, and W.G. Sebald

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780748675470; 0748675477; 9781299456600; 129945660X
    Subjects: Travel writing; Travel in literature; Travel writing; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Literary; FICTION ; General; Travel in literature; Travel writing; Reiseliteratur; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
    Other subjects: Chatwin, Bruce 1940-1989; Naipaul, V. S. 1932-; Sebald, W. G. 1944-2001; Sebald, W. G (1944-2001); Chatwin, Bruce (1940-1989); Naipaul, V. S (1932-2018); Chatwin, Bruce 1940-1989; Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad 1932-; Sebald, Winfried Georg 1944-2001; Chatwin, Bruce; Naipaul, V. S; Sebald, W. G; Sebald, W. G; Chatwin, Bruce; Naipaul, V. S
    Scope: Online Ressource (x, 202 pages), illustrations
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    Based on author's PhD thesis, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany, 2010. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-196) and index. - Print version record
  2. Travellers' tales of wonder
    Chatwin, Naipaul, Sebald
    Author: Cooke, Simon
    Published: ©2013
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780748675470; 0748675477; 9781299456600; 129945660X; 0748675469; 9780748675463
    Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; FICTION / General; Travel in literature; Travel writing; Geschichte; Travel in literature; Travel writing; Reiseliteratur
    Other subjects: Chatwin, Bruce / 1940-1989; Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad / 1932-; Sebald, Winfried Georg / 1944-2001; Chatwin, Bruce / 1940-1989; Naipaul, V. S. / (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) / 1932-; Sebald, W. G. / (Winfried Georg) / 1944-2001; Chatwin, Bruce (1940-1989); Naipaul, V. S. (1932-); Sebald, W. G. (1944-2001); Naipaul, V. S. (1932-2018); Sebald, W. G. (1944-2001); Chatwin, Bruce (1940-1989)
    Scope: x, 202 pages
    Notes:

    Based on author's PhD thesis, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany, 2010

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-196) and index

    Introduction : the wonder that came later -- [pt.] I. 'Horizon of expectations' : travels in literary history. A question of form : genre and the journey -- 'An end to journeying' : travel and its discontents in late modernity -- Forms of recovery and renewal : travels in contemporary literature -- [pt.] II. Readings in contemporary travelers' tales of wonder. Bruce Chatwin and the 'modern WONDER VOYAGE' : In Patagonia (1977) -- V.S. Naipaul and the 'gift of wonder' : The enigma of arrival (1987) -- W.G. Sebald's travels through 'das unentdeckte Land' : Die Ringe des Saturn (1995) -- Afterword : the 'unlimited vicissitudes of travelling.'

    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 the travel narratives of writers such as Bruce Chatwin, V.S. Naipaul, and W.G. Sebald