The Balkans in Travel Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Balkans in Travel Writing write by Marija Knežević. This book was released on 2015-09-18. The Balkans in Travel Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book revisits images of the Balkans in twentieth-century travel writing that vividly mirrors the turbulent changes that the region went through. As such, it provides a vital basis for research into the variety of possibilities, or obstacles, present on the region’s path to accession, when its unique heritage will have to be reconciled with a more European identity. This volume explores the work of well-known authors, such as Rebecca West, Paul Theroux, Robert D. Kaplan, and also contributes to travel writing theory by addressing less-known travellers who recorded their thoughts on the social dynamics of the region. The corpus offers divergent and often contradictory views, ranging from moral and political criticism to a delight in the rich heritage and the still “undiscovered” Balkan paths. More importantly, its generic potentials prove to overcome both the discourse of power and the discourse of apology. Its narrative style also comprises striking variations, from the objective and well-researched approaches to quick impressionist sketches. Being a multi-generic form, travel writing is observed from a multidisciplinary perspective, encompassing fields such as literature, linguistics, history, sociology, anthropology, ethnology, political sciences, and geography.
Balkan Departures
Balkan Departures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Balkan Departures write by Wendy Bracewell. This book was released on 2009-05-01. Balkan Departures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive − traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to self-congratulatory definitions of the West as modern, progressive and rational. However, the Balkans have also long been travelled from. The region’s writers have given accounts of their travels in the West and elsewhere, saying something in the process about themselves and their place in the world. The analyses presented here, ranging from those of 16th-century Greek humanists to 19th-century Romanian reformers to 20th-century writers, socialists and ‘men-of-the-world’, suggest that travellers from the region have also created their own identities through their encounters with Europe. Consequently, this book challenges assumptions of Western discursive hegemony, while at the same time exploring Balkan ‘Occidentalisms’.
Impossible Country
Impossible Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Impossible Country write by Brian Hall. This book was released on 2011-04-30. Impossible Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Here is art which conceals art, and intellect which conceals intellect, so that by the end of the book one feels that one understands something one had not understood before. Mr Hall is witty and amusing, but not snide; he has a lightness of touch which allows him to write of extremely serious matters without solemnity; he knows how to convey a great deal in a few words' Sunday Telegraph 'He is an observant and witty writer...you believe implicitly that he has met the people he writes about, and that they said what he quotes them as saying' Sunday Times
Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century
Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century write by Tim Youngs. This book was released on 2006. Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the cultural and social aspects of travel writing on Africa, Asia, America, the Balkans, and Australasia.
The Long Journey
The Long Journey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Long Journey write by Maria Pia Di Bella. This book was released on 2020-11-01. The Long Journey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Travel writing has, for centuries, composed an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization. This interdisciplinary volume brings together anthropologists, literary scholars, social historians, and other scholars to illuminate travel writing in all its forms. With studies ranging from colonial adventurism to the legacies of the Holocaust, The Long Journey offers a unique dual focus on experience and genre as it applies to three key realms: memory and trauma, confrontations with the Other, and the cultivation of cultural perspective.
