Stacy Burton

Travel Narrative and the Ends of Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

Combining theoretical arguments with close reading, this text traces how twentieth-century writers have reinvented travel narrative for new purposes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9781107539754
• ISBN-10: 1107539757
• Artikelnr.: 42803094

Autorenporträt

Stacy Burton is an associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her work on modernist fiction, travel narrative and literary theory has appeared in Modern Language Quarterly, Modern Philology, Comparative Literature, Genre, and elsewhere.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: critical paradigms and problems
2. The privilege - and problem - of narrative authority
3. Modernist and postmodernist travels
4. Nostalgia and the spectacle of modernity
5. Perpetual wartime
6. The allure of authenticity
Conclusion
Notes
Selected bibliography.