General Information

Language

English.

Published

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2008.

Physical Description

xii, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series

East looks West ; v. 2

Contributors

Contributor

Bracewell, Wendy.

Drace-Francis, Alex.

Subjects

Subject

Travelers' writings, East European > History and criticism.

East Europeans > Travel > Europe > History.

Europe > Description and travel.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

edited by Wendy Bracewell & Alex Drace-Francis.

Content

Towards a natural history of East European travel writing / Alex Drace-Francis -- The travel narrative as a (literary) genre / David Chirico -- The limits of Europe in East European travel writing / Wendy Bracewell -- "They are laughing at us" : Hungarian travellers and early modern European identity / Graeme Murdock -- Travels through the Slav world / Wendy Bracewell -- The odyssey of national discovery : Hungarians in Hungary and abroad, 1750-1850 / Irina v. Popova-Nowak -- European identity and romantic irony : Juliusz Słowacki's journey to Greece / Maria Kalinowska -- Metaphor and monumentality: the travels of Nicolae Iorga / Andi Mihalache -- Oh, to be a European! : what Rastko Petrović learnt in Africa / Zoran Milutinović -- Excursions into national specificity and European identity : Mihail Sebastian's interwar travel reportage / Diana Georgescu -- The cold-war traveller's gaze : Jan Lenica's 1954 sketchbook of London / Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius -- Images of the West in Bulgarian travel writing during socialism (1945-1989) / Rossitza Guentcheva.

ISBN

9789639776111

9639776114

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	809/.935914 BRA		General Stacks	-

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