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

Imprint Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2008.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xii, 388 p. : ill.
Series East looks West ; v. 2
East looks West ; v. 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Sowacki's journey to Greece / Maria Kalinowska -- Metaphor and monumentality: the travels of Nicolae Iorga / Andi Mihalache -- Oh, to be a European! : what Rastko Petrovic learnt in Africa / Zoran Milutinovic -- 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Travelers' writings, East European -- History and criticism.
East Europeans -- Travel -- Europe -- History.
Europe -- Description and travel.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Bracewell, Wendy.
Drace-Francis, Alex.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789639776111 (cloth : alk. paper)
9639776114 (cloth : alk. paper)
9789639776098

 
    
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