Crossing Boundaries
Postmodern Travel Literature
Specificaties
Gebonden, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US |
e druk, 2001
ISBN13: 9780312233884
Rubricering
Verwachte levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
Samenvatting
Crossing Boundaries examines experimental novels about travel by William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon as precursors of innovative contemporary travel narratives, represented by the work of authors such as Bruce Chatwin, William Least Heat-Moon, and William T. Vollmann, among others. While these texts may be read as cultural criticism-functioning as a collective portrait of the world at a time when global space seems exhausted, dominated by multinational corporations and threatened with ecological devastation-they also serve as new Waldens .
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780312233884
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US
Inhoudsopgave
Surveying the Territory Baedeker's Babel: William Gaddis's The Recognitions Travels in Baedeker Land: Thomas Pynchon's V The Nomadic Text: Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines A Focused Wandering: Kenneth Lincoln and Al Logan Slagle's The Good Red Road Deep Travel: William Least Hear-Moon's PrairyErth A New Cartography: William T. Vollmann's The Atlas Wither the Women?