1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778370703321

Titolo

A Bibliography of East European Travel Writing on Europe / ed. Wendy Bracewell, Alex Drace-Francis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Central European University Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

963-386-389-9

1-283-24805-0

9786613248053

1-4356-3271-0

Descrizione fisica

xv, 584 p

Collana

East looks west, , 978 963 9776 09 8 ; ; 3.

Altri autori (Persone)

BracewellWendy

Drace-FrancisAlex

Disciplina

016.914

Soggetti

Európai irodalom - útleírás - bibliográfia

Electronic books.

Europe Description and travel Bibliography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Albanian Travel Writing -- 2. Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian Travel Writing -- 3. Bulgarian -- Czech Travel Writing -- 5. Greek -- 6. Hebrew and Yiddish -- 7. Hungarian Travel Writing -- 8. Macedonian -- 9. Polish Travel Writing -- 10. Romanian Travel Writing -- 11. Slovak Travel Writing -- 12. Slovene Travel Writing -- 13. Ukrainian Travel Writing -- 14. Languages of International Circulation -- 15. Travel Accounts of Europe: An Auxiliary Bibliography -- Index of Places Visited -- Index of Translations by Language

Sommario/riassunto

The bibliography volume of the three-volume East Looks West: East European Travel Writing in Europe collates travel writing published in book form by east Europeans travelling in Europe from ca. 1550 to 2000. It is intended as a fundamental research tool, collecting together travel writings within each national/linguistic tradition, and enabling comparative analysis of such material. It fills an important gap in the existing reference literature, both in western and east European



languages, and will be of use to those working in the growing fields of comparative travel writing, regional and national identities, and postcolonialism.These texts exist in surprisingly large numbers, and include writings of high literary quality as well as of historical interest, but they have been relatively little studied as a genre. Much of this material is rare and difficult to find, even in national libraries. As a result, there are few bibliographical surveys of the literature of east European travel and self-representation, and none that are region-wide or comparative in scope. This is the third volume of a three-part set of East Looks West, Vol. 1 - An Anthology of East European Travel Writing on Europe; and Vol. 2 - A Comparative Introduction to East European Travel Writing on Europe.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255346703321

Autore

Huemer M

Titolo

Approaching Infinity / / by M. Huemer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9781349719600

1349719609

9781137560872

1137560878

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 275 p.)

Disciplina

111/.6

Soggetti

Metaphysics

Mathematics - Philosophy

Logic

Philosophy of Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Approaching Infinity addresses seventeen paradoxes of the infinite, most of which have no generally accepted solutions. The book



addresses these paradoxes using a new theory of infinity, which entails that an infinite series is uncompletable when it requires something to possess an infinite intensive magnitude. Along the way, the author addresses the nature of numbers, sets, geometric points, and related matters. The book addresses the need for a theory of infinity, and reviews both old and new theories of infinity. It discussing the purposes of studying infinity and the troubles with traditional approaches to the problem, and concludes by offering a solution to some existing paradoxes.