LEADER 03575nam 22006494a 450 001 9910778138603321 005 20230831221430.0 010 $a1-282-15714-0 010 $a9786612157141 010 $a1-4008-2601-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826018 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788381 035 $a(EBL)457808 035 $a(OCoLC)436874210 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000110209 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11125256 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000110209 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10064328 035 $a(PQKB)11450879 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36350 035 $a(DE-B1597)446322 035 $a(OCoLC)979757682 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826018 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457808 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312490 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215714 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457808 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788381 100 $a20030620h20042004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe bells in their silence $etravels through Germany /$fMichael Gorra 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, N.J. :$cPrinceton University Press,$d2004. 210 4$aŠ2004 215 $a1 online resource (xvii, 211 pages) 311 0 $a0-691-11765-9 311 $a0-691-12617-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface. The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog --$tOne. Cultural Capital --$tTwo. The Peculiarities of German Travel --$tThree. Visible Cities --$tFour. The Dentist's House --$tFive. Fragments and Digressions --$tSix. Hauptstadt --$tSeven. Family Chronicles --$tSources and Suggestions for Further Reading --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aNobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the "German problem," World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Wall, reunification, and the connections between them. But not travel books, not the free-ranging and impressionistic works of literary nonfiction we associate with V. S. Naipaul and Bruce Chatwin. What is it about Germany and the travel book that puts them seemingly at odds? With one foot in the library and one on the street, Michael Gorra offers both an answer to this question and his own traveler's tale of Germany. Gorra uses Goethe's account of his Italian journey as a model for testing the traveler's response to Germany today, and he subjects the shopping arcades of contemporary German cities to the terms of Benjamin's Arcades project. He reads post-Wende Berlin through the novels of Theodor Fontane, examines the role of figurative language, and enlists W. G. Sebald as a guide to the place of fragments and digressions in travel writing. Replete with the flaneur's chance discoveries--and rich in the delights of the enduring and the ephemeral, of architecture and flood--The Bells in Their Silence offers that rare traveler's tale of Germany while testing the very limits of the travel narrative as a literary form. 606 $aTravel writing$xHistory 607 $aGermany$xDescription and travel 607 $aGermany$xIn literature 615 0$aTravel writing$xHistory. 676 $a914.304/882 700 $aGorra$b Michael Edward$0174961 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778138603321 996 $aThe bells in their silence$93843804 997 $aUNINA