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1 online resource |
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Machine generated contents note: -- pt. One. The Balkans in Travel Writing until the 1990s -- Earliest Travel Writings about Southeast Serbia and their Characteristics / Dragana Masovic -- Adolfo Rossi on Montenegro / Olivera Popovic -- Macedonian Women through the Prism of the British Travel Writers / Tatjana Panova-Ignjatovic -- Onomasticon in the Mountain Travelogues Collected in Montenegrin Mountains -- Travelogues and Records / Drasko Dosljak -- Montenegro on Old Maps / Goran Barovic -- pt. Two. Travel Writing on the Balkans after the 1990s -- Distortion and Reality in Travel Writing on the Balkans / Antonia Young -- Reconstructing Empire or Striking Against it? Contemporary Travelogues of the Balkans / Maja Muhic -- Personality Coloured Renderings / Bojka Dukanovic -- The Ex-Yu as the Other in Anglo-American Travel Writings / Sasa Simovic -- Depicting the Region of Sandzak / Jahja Fehratovic -- Mid-1990s Albania in the Memoirs of a Former Peace Corps Volunteer / Armela Panajoti -- Translating besa: Encounters with Complex Cultural Phenomena / Tom Phillips -- Dervla Murphy's Through the Embers of Chaos / Marija Krivokapic -- Tony White's Another Fool in the Balkans: In the Footsteps of Rebecca West / Marija Rrivokapic -- pt. Three. Travel Writing Produced by Balkan Authors since the 20th Century -- "A Balkan Cleaning Up": John Sofianopoulos' Balkan Travels during 1920s and His Social Insights / Michael Sarras -- Literary Form as an Expression of Private Life: A Travelogue by Radonja Vesovic / Sofija Kalezic-Burickovic -- The Travelogue as a Literary Genre in Contemporary Macedonian Literature / Jovanka Denkova -- Josip Novakovich's Reminiscences from the Balkans / Aleksandra V. Jovanovic |
| Summary |
This book revisits images of the Balkans in twentieth-century travel writing that vividly mirrors the turbulent changes that the region went through. As such, it provides a vital basis for research into the variety of possibilities, or obstacles, present on the region's path to accession, when its unique heritage will have to be reconciled with a more European identity. This volume explores the work of well-known authors, such as Rebecca West, Paul Theroux, Robert D. Kaplan, and also contributes to travel writing theory by addressing less-known travellers who recorded their thoughts on the soc |
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Travel writing -- History and criticism
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Literature & literary studies.
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Prose: non-fiction.
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Cultural studies.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
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Literature
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Travel writing
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Balkan Peninsula -- In literature
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Balkan Peninsula
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Krivokapić-Knežević, Marija
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| ISBN |
9781443883450 |
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144388345X |
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