Simon Cooke

Travellers' Tales of Wonder (eBook, PDF)

Chatwin, Naipaul, Sebald

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Argues that 'travellers' tales of wonder' are a vital yet unacknowledged presence in contemporary literatureExploring travellers' tales of wonder in contemporary literature, this study challenges a sensibility of disenchantment with travel. It reassesses travel writing as an aesthetically and ethically innovative form in contemporary international literature, and demonstrates the crucial role of wonder in the travel narratives of writers such as Bruce Chatwin, V.S. Naipaul, and W.G. Sebald. Their 'travellers' tales of wonder' are read as a challenge to the hubris of thinking the world too well known, and an invitation to encounter the world - including its most troubling histories - with a sense of wonder. Key FeaturesReassesses the place of travel writing in literary history to argue that the genre is important as a site of aesthetic innovation and ethical engagement in contemporary literatureDemonstrates the central role of wonder in travel accounts often regarded as narratives of disenchantmentExplores the way travellers' tales of wonder recover and renew ancient and early modern forms in approaching modern and contemporary issuesOffers new, in-depth readings of the work of three major writers, in each case drawing on as yet unpublished results of archival research

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748675470
• Artikelnr.: 38222943

Autorenporträt

Research Fellow in English Literature, Edinburgh University. He holds a BA in English from the University of Hull and an MA in English: Issues in Modern Culture, from UCL, and gained his PhD at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany, in 2010. His research and teaching interests are broad, with an emphasis on modern and contemporary English and comparative literature, and a specialist interest in the literature of travel.