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xvii, 211 pages ; 24 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface. The wanderer above the sea of fog. Chapter One. Cultural capital -- Chapter Two. The peculiarities of German travel -- Chapter Three. Visible cities -- Chapter Four. The dentist's house -- Chapter Five. Fragments and digressions -- Chapter Six. Haupstadt -- Chapter Seven. Family chronicles. |
| Summary |
"Michael Gorra uses Goethe's account of his Italian journey as a model for testing the traveler's response to Germany today, and he subjects the shopping arcades of contemporary German cities to the terms of Benjamin's Arcades project. He reads post-Wende Berlin through the novels of Theodor Fontane, examines the role of figurative language, and enlists W.G. Sebald as a guide to the place of fragments and digressions in travel writing." "Replete with the flaneur's chance discoveries - and rich in the delights of the enduring and the ephemeral, of architecture and flood - The Bells in Their Silence offers that rare traveler's tale of Germany while testing the very limits of the travel narrative as a literary form."--Jacket. |
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Travel writing -- History.
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Germany -- Description and travel.
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Germany -- In literature.
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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Travel writing. (OCoLC)fst01155681
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Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
0691117659 (alk. paper) |
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9780691117652 (alk. paper) |
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0691126178 (pbk.) |
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9780691126173 (pbk.) |
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