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?

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Information

Publisher

Central European University Press

Year

2008

ISBN

9786155211539

Topic

Personal Development

Subtopic

Travel

Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Table of Contents
Foreword
1. Towards a Natural History of East European Travel Writing
2. The Travel Narrative as a (Literary) Genre
3. The Limits of Europe in East European Travel Writing
4. ‘They Are Laughing at Us’: Hungarian Travellers and Early Modern European Identity
5. Travels Through the Slav World
6. The Odyssey of National Discovery: Hungarians in Hungary and Abroad, 1750-1850
7. European Identity and Romantic Irony: Juliusz Slowacki’s Journey to Greece
8. Metaphor and Monumentality: The Travels of Nicolae Iorga
9. Oh, to Be a European! What Rastko PetroviΔ Learnt in Africa
10. Excursions into National Specifi city and European Identity: Mihail Sebastian’s Interwar Travel Reportage
11. The Cold-War Traveller’s Gaze: Jan Lenica’s 1954 Sketchbook of London
12. Images of the West in Bulgarian Travel Writing During Socialism (1945-1989)
Notes on Contributors .
Index