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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464050803321

Autore

Krehan Hannes

Titolo

"Trust me - it's paradise" : the escapist motif in into the wild, the beach and are you experienced? / / Hannes Krehan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hamburg, Germany : , : Anchor Academic Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-95489-685-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (93 p.)

Disciplina

155.9

Soggetti

Escape (Psychology) - Germany

Culture - History

Electronic books.

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.

Sommario/riassunto

The author analyzes three books on escapism and the various ways in which it is represented in them. He focuses on Alex Garland's backpacker cult novel 'The Beach' and William Sutcliffe's satire of the gap-year traveler 'Are You Experienced?' as well as Jon Krakauer's non-fiction book 'Into the Wild'.The first part of the analysis deals with the influence of literary genres like the Bildungsroman and travel literature. Unreliable narration as a narrative strategy is taken into consideration, as well as the colonial subtext of 'The Beach' and 'Are You Experienced?'. In 'Into the Wild' nature wr



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Record Nr.

UNISA996213514503316

Titolo

Annals of diagnostic pathology

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Philadelphia, Pa.], : W.B. Saunders

ISSN

1532-8198

Disciplina

616

Soggetti

Pathology

Diagnosis, Laboratory

Diagnosis

Symptoms

Pathology - methods

Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures

Diagnostics

Signes et symptômes

Pathologie

Diagnostics biologiques

Diagnostics - Méthodologie

Periodical

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed