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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454398203321

Titolo

Under Eastern eyes [[electronic resource] ] : a comparative introduction to East European travel writing on Europe / / edited by Wendy Bracewell & Alex Drace-Francis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

615-5211-53-1

1-283-24804-2

9786613248046

1-4356-5599-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Collana

East looks West ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

BracewellWendy

Drace-FrancisAlex

Disciplina

809/.935914

Soggetti

Travelers' writings, East European - History and criticism

East Europeans - Travel - Europe - History

Electronic books.

Europe Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Towards a natural history of East European travel writing / Alex Drace-Francis -- The travel narrative as a (literary) genre / David Chirico -- The limits of Europe in East European travel writing / Wendy Bracewell -- "They are laughing at us" : Hungarian travellers and early modern European identity / Graeme Murdock -- Travels through the Slav world / Wendy Bracewell -- The odyssey of national discovery : Hungarians in Hungary and abroad, 1750-1850 / Irina v. Popova-Nowak -- European identity and romantic irony : Juliusz Słowacki's journey to Greece / Maria Kalinowska -- Metaphor and monumentality: the travels of Nicolae Iorga / Andi Mihalache -- Oh, to be a European! : what Rastko Petrović learnt in Africa / Zoran Milutinović -- Excursions into national specificity and European identity : Mihail Sebastian's interwar travel reportage / Diana Georgescu -- The cold-war traveller's gaze : Jan Lenica's 1954 sketchbook of London / Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius -- Images of the West in Bulgarian travel writing during socialism



(1945-1989) / Rossitza Guentcheva.