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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826265203321

Autore

Ascari Maurizio

Titolo

Sites of exchange [[electronic resource] ] : European crossroads and faultlines / / edited by Maurizio Ascari and Adriana Corrado

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2006

Amsterdam ; ; New York : , : Rodopi, , 2006

ISBN

94-012-0307-5

1-4294-5633-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, , 0929-6999 ; ; 103

Disciplina

940

Soggetti

Comparative literature

European literature - History and criticism

Travel in literature

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.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Grand Tour and the Mediterranean; 2. Water and Cultural Memory; 3. Literature and Cityscapes; 4. Borders and Conflicts; Concluding Remarks; Notes on Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Crossing borders - both physically and imaginatively - is part of our 'nomadic' postmodern identity, but transcultural and transnational exchanges have also played a major role in the centuries-long processes of hybridisation that helped to fashion the vast geographic, political and imaginative container of diversity we call Europe. This volume gathers together the work of scholars from several European countries in an attempt to encourage a collective reflection upon historical - and often 'mythical' - locations and landscapes, as well as upon the thresholds and faultlines that unite or separ