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

• Autore: Ascari Maurizio
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2006; Amsterdam ; ; New York : , : Rodopi, , 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 940
• Soggetto topico: Comparative literature; European literature - History and criticism; Travel in literature
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Sites of exchange
• ISBN: 94-012-0307-5; 1-4294-5633-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826265203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; ; 103.