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1 online resource (183 pages) |
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Title page-Balkan Departures; Contents; Chapter 1-Balkan Travel Writing: Points of Departure; Chapter 2-Hodoeporicon, Periegesis, Apodemia: Early Modern Greek Travel Writing on Europe; Chapter 3-Dinicu Golescu's Account of My Travels (1826): Eurotopia as Manifesto; Chapter 4-Writing Difference/Claiming General Validity: Jovan Ducic's Cities and Chinaeras and the West; Chapter 5-Towards a Modernist Travel Culture; Chapter 6-Getting to Know the Big Bad West? Images of Western Europe in Bulgarian Travel Writting of the Communist Era (1945-1985) |
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Chapter 7-New Men, Old Europe: Being a Man in Balkan Travel Writing; Notes on Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place traveled 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 traveled from. The region's writers have offered 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 o |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Travelers' writings, East European -- History and criticism
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East Europeans -- Travel -- Europe -- History
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Travel writing -- History
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
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Travel
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Travel writing
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Travelers' writings, East European
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Languages & Literatures.
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Literature - General.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045661
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Drace-Francis, Alex.
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| ISBN |
9781845459178 |
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1845459172 |
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1282627767 |
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9781282627765 |
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9786612627767 |
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661262776X |
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