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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782015003321

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

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.



Sommario/riassunto

Twelve studies explicitly developed to elaborate on travel writing published in book form by east Europeans travelling in Europe from ca. 1550 to 2000. How did east Europeans have positioned themselves with relation to the notion of Europe, and how has the genre of travel writing served as a means of exploring and disseminating these ideas?