David Scott

Semiologies of Travel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the role of signs in foreign culture encounters as expressed in travel writing, this book focuses on French writers of the last two hundred years. David Scott demonstrates how politics, sociology and semiotics, as well as literature, are connected to the travel experience in this comprehensive survey of travel writing in French culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780521838535
• ISBN-10: 0521838533
• Artikelnr.: 22434697

Autorenporträt

David Scott is the author of numerous books on art, poetry, travel and graphic design. His novel Dynamo Island, The Cultural History and Geography of a Utopia was published in 2016. His first book of short stories, Cut up on Copacabana, came in 2018. A former 5000-metre athlete and amateur boxer, he has written widely on boxing, The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, 2009, Cultures of Boxing, 2015.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Reading signs: foregrounding the signifier from Gautier to Baudrillard; 2. The other as interpretant: from Segalen and Michaux to the ethno-roman; 3. Identity crises: 'Je est un autre'
Gautier
Gauguin
Nerval
Bouvier; 4. Utopias and dystopias: back in the US/USSR
Gide
Baudrillard
Disneyland; 5. Signs in the desert: from Chateaubriand to Baudrillard; 6. Jungle books: misreading the jungle with Gide
Michaux and Leiris; 7. Grammars of gastronomy
the raw and the cooked: Lévi-Strauss
Barthes
Boman and Leiris; Conclusion: writing difference
coming home to write.