Under Eastern eyes a comparative introduction to East European travel writing on Europe / edited by Wendy Bracewell & Alex Drace-Francis.

Other author Bracewell, Wendy.
Other author Drace-Francis, Alex.
Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoBudapest ; New York : Central European University Press,
Descriptionxii, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Travelers' writings, East European--History and criticism.
East Europeans--Travel. --Europe. --History.
Europe--Description and travel.

SeriesEast looks West ; v. 2
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008001270
ISBN9789639776111 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9639776114 (cloth : alk. paper)