Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel - The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning in the Era of Globalization

Informationen zum Autor Stephen M. Levin Klappentext The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel examines the aesthetics of adventure travel since World War II by exploring the many referents travelers evoke as they imagine their escapes: the lingering memory of the war, the disintegration of empire, and the rapid growth of capitalism and commercial culture. Zusammenfassung The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel examines the aesthetics of adventure travel since World War II by exploring the many referents travelers evoke as they imagine their escapes: the lingering memory of the war, the disintegration of empire, and the rapid growth of capitalism and commercial culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: A Point of Entry Acknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction: Adventure Travel, Leisure Practice and Social Critique Chapter Two: The Contemporary Crusoe: Obsessionality and Adventure Travel Chapter Three: Postmodern Pilgrimages: Conversion and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the Hysterical Travel Narrative Chapter Four: The Self in Ruins: Mourning and Melancholia in Contemporary Travel Writing Chapter Five: Conclusion: Negation as a Lived Critique of Global Culture Notes Bibliography Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Stephen Levin, Stephen M Levin, Stephen M. Levin, Stephen M. (Clark University Levin, LEVIN STEPHEN, Levin Stephen M., Stephen M. Levin
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 23.04.2008
• EAN: 9780415955492
• ISBN: 978-0-415-95549-2
• Seiten: 200
• Abmessung: 165 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Serien: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory; Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form