Narrow Search
Last searches

Results for *

Displaying results 1 to 2 of 2.

  1. Travel writing
    the self and the world
  2. Travel writing
    the self and the world
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York

    Bibliographic EssayRecommended Titles; Index. Blanton follows the development of travel writing from classical times to the present, focusing in particular on Anglo-American travel writing since the eighteenth century. He identifies significant... more

    Access:
    Aggregator (lizenzpflichtig)
    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
    E-Book EBSCO
    No inter-library loan
    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
    E-Book Ebsco
    No inter-library loan
    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
    No inter-library loan
    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
    No inter-library loan

     

    Bibliographic EssayRecommended Titles; Index. Blanton follows the development of travel writing from classical times to the present, focusing in particular on Anglo-American travel writing since the eighteenth century. He identifies significant theoretical and critical contributions to the field, and also examines key texts by James Boswell, Mary Kingsley, Graham Greene, Peter Mathiessen, V.S. Naipaul, and Bruce Chatwin TRAVEL WRITTINGTHE SELF AND THE WORLD ; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chronology; Chapter 1Narrating Self and Other: A Historical Overview; Chapter 2"Vain Travelers": James Boswell and the Grand Tour; Chapter 3 Victorian Women Travelers: Mary Kingsley; Chapter 4The Modern Psychological Journey: Graham Greene; Chapter 5 Nature-Travel Writing: Peter Matthiessen; Chapter 6"Splenetic Travelers": V.S. Naipaul; Chapter 7"Lying Travelers": Bruce Chatwin; Chapter 8Envoi: Writings of Place and the Poetics of Displacement in the Works of Paul Theroux and Roland Barthes; Notes and References.

     

    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file