1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910493162703321

Autore

Bracewell Wendy

Titolo

Balkan Departures [[electronic resource] ] : Travel Writing from South-eastern Europe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009

ISBN

1-282-62776-7

9786612627767

1-84545-917-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Drace-FrancisAlex

Disciplina

809.935914

Soggetti

East Europeans -- Travel -- Europe -- History

Travel writing -- History

Travelers’ writings, East European -- History and criticism

Travelers' writings, East European - History and criticism - Europe

East Europeans - Travel - History

Travel writing - History

Languages & Literatures

Literature - General

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Title page-Balkan Departures; Contents; Chapter 1-Balkan Travel Writting: Points of Departure; Chpater 2-Hodoeporicon, Periegesis, Apodemia: Early Modern Greek Travel Writting on Europe; Chapter 3-Dinicu Golescu's Account of My Travels (1826): Eurotopia as Manifesto; Chapter 4-Writing Difference/Claiming General Validity: Jovan Ducic's Cities and Chinaeras and the West; Chapter 5-Towards a Modernist Travel Culture; Chapter 6-Getting to Know the Big Bad West? Images of Western Europe in Bulgarian Travel Writting of the Communist Era (1945-1985)

Chapter 7-New Men, Old Europe: Being a Man in Balkan Travel WritingNotes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place



traveled 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 traveled from. The region's writers have offered 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 o

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000823390203316

Autore

MARCUS, Steven

Titolo

Engels, Manchester e la classe lavoratrice / Steven Marcus ; traduzione di Luca Fontana

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino, : Einaudi, 1980

Descrizione fisica

XX, 269 p. ; 18 cm

Collana

Piccola biblioteca Einaudi ; 387

Collocazione

II.5. 184 (VARIE COLL 11/387)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia