A Bibliography Of East European Travel Writing On Europe

Author : Wendy Bracewell,Alex Drace-Francis
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9789633863893

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A Bibliography of East European Travel Writing on Europe by Wendy Bracewell,Alex Drace-Francis Pdf

The bibliography volume of the three-volume East Looks West: East European Travel Writing in Europe collates travel writing published in book form by east Europeans travelling in Europe from ca. 1550 to 2000. It is intended as a fundamental research tool, collecting together travel writings within each national/linguistic tradition, and enabling comparative analysis of such material. It fills an important gap in the existing reference literature, both in western and east European languages, and will be of use to those working in the growing fields of comparative travel writing, regional and national identities, and postcolonialism.These texts exist in surprisingly large numbers, and include writings of high literary quality as well as of historical interest, but they have been relatively little studied as a genre. Much of this material is rare and difficult to find, even in national libraries. As a result, there are few bibliographical surveys of the literature of east European travel and self-representation, and none that are region-wide or comparative in scope. This is the third volume of a three-part set of East Looks West, Vol. 1 - An Anthology of East European Travel Writing on Europe; and Vol. 2 - A Comparative Introduction to East European Travel Writing on Europe.

Author : Wendy Bracewell
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9786155211768

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Orientations by Wendy Bracewell Pdf

Excerpts from over 100 travel writings of Europe, from 16th c. pilgrimage diaries thru early specimens of modern tourism accounts to 20th c. impressions from the other side of the Iron Curtain By focusing on east European travel writings, this work enlarges both the documentary base and the terms of the debate over a rich source for discussions of identities and mentalities; knowledge and power; gender; and cultural change. The texts – chosen for their relevance, but literary criteria have also been taken into account – illustrate the variety of ways in which east Europeans have written about the West. Most of the material is presented in English for the first time or, in a few cases, rescued from dusty oblivion in long out-of-print volumes. Each text is introduced with a short passage placing it in context. This is the first volume of the three-part set East Looks West. Vol. 2. Under Eastern Eyes. A Comparative Introduction to East European Travel Writing on Europe, 1550–2000; Vol. 3. A Bibliography of East European Travel Writing on Europe.

Author : Wendy Bracewell,Alex Drace-Francis
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9639776114

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Under Eastern Eyes by Wendy Bracewell,Alex Drace-Francis Pdf

Twelve studies explicitly developed to elaborate on travel writing published in book form by east Europeans travelling in Europe from ca. 1550 to 2000. How did east Europeans have positioned themselves with relation to the notion of Europe, and how has the genre of travel writing served as a means of exploring and disseminating these ideas? A truly comparative and collective work with a substantial introductory study, the book has taken full advantage of the interdisciplinary and comparative potential of the team of project scholars working in the different national literatures, from different disciplinary perspectives

Author : Wendy Bracewell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : East Europeans
ISBN : 1441635858

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Orientations by Wendy Bracewell Pdf

"This anthology introduces readers to the rich body of travel writing from eastern Europe. It presents a selection of accounts written over the past 450 years, chosen from many different types of author - from the well-known to the obscure - and representing many different genres of travel writing, from personal letters to self-consciously literary exercises. The extracts illustrate the variety of ways in which east Europeans have written about Europe, and their place in relation to it."--Publisher's description.

Author : Wendy Bracewell,Alex Drace-Francis
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9639776114

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Under Eastern Eyes by Wendy Bracewell,Alex Drace-Francis Pdf

Twelve studies explicitly developed to elaborate on travel writing published in book form by east Europeans travelling in Europe from ca. 1550 to 2000. How did east Europeans have positioned themselves with relation to the notion of Europe, and how has the genre of travel writing served as a means of exploring and disseminating these ideas?

Author : Wendy Bracewell,Alex Drace-Francis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:690146963

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Under Eastern Eyes by Wendy Bracewell,Alex Drace-Francis Pdf

Author : Wendy Bracewell
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9639776106

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Orientations by Wendy Bracewell Pdf

"This anthology introduces readers to the rich body of travel writing from eastern Europe. It presents a selection of accounts written over the past 450 years, chosen from many different types of author - from the well-known to the obscure - and representing many different genres of travel writing, from personal letters to self-consciously literary exercises. The extracts illustrate the variety of ways in which east Europeans have written about Europe, and their place in relation to it."--Publisher's description.

Author : Wendy Bracewell,Alex Drace-Francis
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1845452542

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Balkan Departures by Wendy Bracewell,Alex Drace-Francis Pdf

In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive − traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to self-congratulatory definitions of the West as modern, progressive and rational. However, the Balkans have also long been travelled from. The region's writers have given accounts of their travels in the West and elsewhere, saying something in the process about themselves and their place in the world. The analyses presented here, ranging from those of 16th-century Greek humanists to 19th-century Romanian reformers to 20th-century writers, socialists and 'men-of-the-world', suggest that travellers from the region have also created their own identities through their encounters with Europe. Consequently, this book challenges assumptions of Western discursive hegemony, while at the same time exploring Balkan 'Occidentalisms'.

Author : Hagen Schulz-Forberg
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9052012350

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Unravelling Civilisation by Hagen Schulz-Forberg Pdf

This volume is a collection of contributions about the history and practice of travel and travel writing from a variety of academic disciplines including anthropology, history, linguistics and literary criticism. It brings together scholars from over ten different countries and reflects on what travel is and how travel writings function. It traces the history of travel and travel writing and the notion or idea of a European civilisation that permeates performances and perceptions. The notion of Europe appears as a set of quality standards as well as guidelines for experiences against which civilisations are measured. This set of standards and guidelines, however, is far from stable. It is a floating foundation carrying different versions of Europe throughout time. The authors tackle the problem from different angles: travels from Europe across the seven oceans transported the idea of European civilisation just as travels to Europe or within Europe. The volume explores the different meanings attached to the term 'Europe' and 'civilisation' throughout history and shows how different political or cultural contexts affect the notion of what Europe is or should be.

Author : Charles Burdett,Derek Duncan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1571815015

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Cultural Encounters by Charles Burdett,Derek Duncan Pdf

"These timely reconsiderations of European Travel writing from the 1930s reassert the oppositional primacy of subjective translations and disavow hermetic notions that travel should or even can be divorced from socio-political or cultural contexts." - Journeys "Cultural Encounters offers a rich, varied and yet impressively coherent collection of essays on the meanings and practices of travel writing in 1930s Europe. Carefully building on theoretical interest in travel writing of recent years, the essays follow written journeys to Graham Greene's Liberia and Lorca's Cuba, to Fascist Italy's Greece and France's Indochina, and many more. Throughout, texts and authors are shown to be alive with hybrid constructions of self and of ideological, national and colonial identity. What is more, the book provides compelling reasons for seeing 1930s travel writing as being of particular fascination, lying on a cusp between the Depression, totalitarianism, colonialism and modernism, and the seeds of mass tourism, post-colonialism and globalization." - Re-reading German literature since 1945, Robert Gordon, Cambridge University The 1930s were one of the most important decades in defining the history of the twentieth century. It saw the rise of right-wing nationalism, the challenge to established democracies and the full force of imperialist aggression. Cultural Encounters makes an important contribution to our understanding of the ideological and cultural forces which were active in defining notions of national identity in the 1930s. By examining the work of writers and journalists from a range of European countries who used the medium of travel writing to articulate perceptions of their own and other cultures, the book gives a comprehensive account of the complex intellectual climate of the 1930s.

Author : Wendy Bracewell,Alex Drace-Francis
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9786155211539

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Under Eastern Eyes by Wendy Bracewell,Alex Drace-Francis Pdf

Twelve studies explicitly developed to elaborate on travel writing published in book form by east Europeans travelling in Europe from ca. 1550 to 2000. How did east Europeans have positioned themselves with relation to the notion of Europe, and how has the genre of travel writing served as a means of exploring and disseminating these ideas?

Author : Róisín Healy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429755972

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Mobility in the Russian, Central and East European Past by Róisín Healy Pdf

The "new mobilities paradigm" which emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century has identified mobility as a process intrinsic to the human experience and fundamental to the formation of social and political structures. This volume breaks new ground by demonstrating the role of the journey as a key motor of human development in Russia, central and east Europe in the modern period. It does so by means of twelve case studies that examine different types of movement, both voluntary and involuntary, temporary and permanent, short- and long-distance, into, out of, and around the region.

Author : Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351034401

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Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe by Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius Pdf

Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of the visual in the construction of Europe’s east as a socio-political and cultural entity. This book probes into the discontinuous processes of mapping the eastern European space and imaging the eastern European body. Beginning from the Renaissance maps of Sarmatia Europea, it moves onto the images of women in ethnic dress on the pages of travellers’ reports from the Balkans, to cartoons of children bullied by dictators in the satirical press, to Cold War cartography, and it ends with photos of protesting crowds on contemporary dust jackets. Studying the eastern European ‘iconosphere’ leads to the engagement with issues central for image studies and visual culture: word and image relationship, overlaps between the codes of othering and self-fashioning, as well as interaction between the diverse modes of production specific to cartography, travel illustrations, caricature, and book cover design. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, visual culture, and central Asian, Russian and Eastern European studies.

Author : Irina Livezeanu,Arpad von Klimo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351863438

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The Routledge History of East Central Europe Since 1700 by Irina Livezeanu,Arpad von Klimo Pdf

"Covers territory from Russia in the east to Germany and Austria in the west, exploring the origins and evolution of modernity in this region"--Provided by the publisher.

Author : David B. MacDonald,Mary-Michelle DeCoste
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781554588664

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Europe in Its Own Eyes, Europe in the Eyes of the Other by David B. MacDonald,Mary-Michelle DeCoste Pdf

What is Europe? Who is European? What do Europe and European identity mean in the twenty-first century? This collection of sixteen essays seeks to answer these questions by focusing on Europe as it is seen through its own eyes and through the eyes of others across a variety of cultural texts, including sport, film, literature, dance, cartography, and fashion. These texts, as interpreted here by emerging researchers as well as well-established scholars, enable us to engage with European identities in the plural and to understand what these identities mean in larger cultural and political contexts. The interdisciplinary focus of this volume permits an exploration of European identity that reaches beyond the area of European studies to incorporate understandings of identity from the viewpoints of both insider and other. Contributors explore diverse understandings of what it means to be “other” to a country, a culture, a society, or a subgroup. This book offers a fresh perspective on the evolving concept of identity—in the context of Europe’s past, present, and future—and expands on the existing literature by considering the political tensions and social implications of the development of European identity, as well as its literary, artistic, and cultural manifestations.