LEADER 03530nam 22007093u 450 001 9910493162703321 005 20210111224945.0 010 $a1-282-62776-7 010 $a9786612627767 010 $a1-84545-917-2 035 $a(CKB)2560000000012077 035 $a(EBL)544293 035 $a(OCoLC)645100558 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000457086 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12141115 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000457086 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10410729 035 $a(PQKB)11649905 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC544293 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000012077 100 $a20130418d2009|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBalkan Departures$b[electronic resource] $eTravel Writing from South-eastern Europe 210 $aNew York $cBerghahn Books$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (183 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84545-788-9 311 $a1-84545-254-2 327 $aTitle 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) 327 $aChapter 7-New Men, Old Europe: Being a Man in Balkan Travel WritingNotes on Contributors; Index 330 $aIn 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 606 $aEast Europeans -- Travel -- Europe -- History 606 $aTravel writing -- History 606 $aTravelers’ writings, East European -- History and criticism 606 $aTravelers' writings, East European$xHistory and criticism$zEurope 606 $aEast Europeans$xTravel$xHistory 606 $aTravel writing$xHistory 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aLiterature - General$2HILCC 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aEast Europeans -- Travel -- Europe -- History. 615 4$aTravel writing -- History. 615 4$aTravelers’ writings, East European -- History and criticism. 615 0$aTravelers' writings, East European$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEast Europeans$xTravel$xHistory 615 0$aTravel writing$xHistory 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aLiterature - General 676 $a809.935914 700 $aBracewell$b Wendy$0888136 701 $aDrace-Francis$b Alex$0888137 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910493162703321 996 $aBalkan Departures$92459147 997 $aUNINA