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  1. Travellers' Tales of Wonder
    Chatwin, Naipaul, Sebald
    Author: Cooke, Simon
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Exploring travellers' tales of wonder in contemporary literature, this study challenges a sensibility of disenchantment with travel. more

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    Exploring travellers' tales of wonder in contemporary literature, this study challenges a sensibility of disenchantment with travel.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780748675470
    RVK Categories: HN 2661
    Subjects: Reiseliteratur; Chatwin, Bruce, -- 1940-1989; Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), -- 1932-; Travellers
    Other subjects: Sebald, W. G. (1944-2001); Chatwin, Bruce (1940-1989); Naipaul, V. S. (1932-2018)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (217 pages)
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  2. Travellers' Tales of Wonder
    Chatwin, Naipaul, Sebald
    Author: Cooke, Simon
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

    Argues that 'travellers' tales of wonder' are a vital yet unacknowledged presence in contemporary literature. Exploring travellers' tales of wonder in contemporary literature, this study challenges a sensibility of disenchantment with travel. It... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt / Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt
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    Argues that 'travellers' tales of wonder' are a vital yet unacknowledged presence in contemporary literature. 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 the travel narratives of writers such as Bruce Chatwin, V.S. Naipaul, and W.G. Sebald. Their 'travellers' tales of wonder' are read as a challenge to the hubris of thinking the world too we

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780748675463
    Subjects: Chatwin, Bruce, -- 1940-1989; Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), -- 1932-; Travellers; Chatwin, Bruce ; 1940-1989..; Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) ; 1932-; Travellers; Electronic books
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    Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Wonder that Came Later; Part I 'Horizon of expectations': Travels in Literary History; Chapter 1 A Question of Form: Genre and the Journey; Chapter 2 'An End to Journeying': Travel and its Discontents in Late Modernity; Chapter 3 Forms of Recovery and Renewal: Travels in Contemporary Literature; Part II Readings in Contemporary Travellers' Tales of Wonder; Chapter 4 Bruce Chatwin and the 'modern WONDER VOYAGE': In Patagonia (1977)

    Chapter 5 V. S. Naipaul and the 'gift of wonder':The Enigma of Arrival (1987)Chapter 6 W. G. Sebald's Travels through 'das unentdeckte Land ': Die Ringe des Saturn (1995); Afterword: The 'unlimited vicissitudes of travelling'; Bibliography; Index