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Under Eastern Eyes

A Comparative History of East European Travel Writing on Europe

Wendy Bracewell editor Alex Drace-Francis editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Central European University Press

Published:20th Jun '08

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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? A truly comparative and collective work with a substantial introductory study, the book has taken full advantage of the interdisciplinary and comparative potential of the team of project scholars working in the different national literatures, from different disciplinary perspectives

ISBN: 9789639776111

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 725g

400 pages