Travel narrative and the ends of modernity / / Stacy Burton, University of Nevada [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Burton Stacy
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 820.9/32
• Soggetto topico: Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism; Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism; Modernism (Literature); Postmodernism (Literature); Travel in literature; Travel writing - History
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Jan 2016).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Critical paradigms and problems -- The privilege -and problem- of narrative authority -- Modernist and postmodernist travels -- Nostalgia and the spectacle of modernity -- Perpetual wartime -- The allure of authenticity.
• Sommario/riassunto: Over the past century, narratives of travel changed in response to modernist and postmodernist literary innovation, world wars, the demise of European empires, and the effect of new technologies and media on travel experience. Yet existing critical studies have not examined fully how the genre changes or theorized why. This study investigates the evolution of Anglophone travel narrative from the 1920s to the present, addressing the work of canonical authors such as T. E. Lawrence, W. H. Auden and Rebecca West; best-sellers by Peter Fleming and H. V. Morton; and texts by Colin Thubron, Andrew X. Pham, Rosemary Mahoney, and others. It argues that the genre's most important transformation lies in its reinvention as a means of narrating the subjective experience of violence, cultural upheaval, and decline. It will interest scholars and students of travel writing, modernism and postmodernism, English and American literature, and the history and sociology of travel.
• Titolo autorizzato: Travel narrative and the ends of modernity
• ISBN: 1-107-42498-4; 1-107-42286-8; 1-107-53975-7; 1-107-41719-8; 1-107-42096-2; 1-107-41974-3; 1-139-60020-6; 1-107-41843-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813280703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.