LEADER 03641nam 22007453u 450 001 9910791366803321 005 20230928150806.0 010 $a1-282-62776-7 010 $a9786612627767 010 $a1-84545-917-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781845459178 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(DE-B1597)636655 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781845459178 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 Writing: Points of Departure; Chapter 2-Hodoeporicon, Periegesis, Apodemia: Early Modern Greek Travel Writing 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 Writing of the Communist Era (1945-1985) 327 $aChapter 7-New Men, Old Europe: Being a Man in Balkan Travel Writing; Notes 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 607 $aEurope$xDescription and travel 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$01490900 701 $aDrace-Francis$b Alex$01490901 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791366803321 996 $aBalkan Departures$93751082 997 $aUNINA