Travellers' Tales of Wonder : Chatwin, Naipaul, Sebald

by Simon Cooke

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10 0748675469

ISBN-13 9780748675463

Publisher Edinburgh University Press

Imprint Edinburgh University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 22nd, 2013

Print length 216 Pages

Weight 472 grams

Dimensions 24.10 x 15.70 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Exploring travellers’ tales of wonder in contemporary literature, this study challenges a sensibility of disenchantment with travel.

Exploring travellers'' tales of wonder in contemporary literature, this study challenges a sensibility of disenchantment with travel. It reassesses travel writing as an aesthetically and ethically innovative form in contemporary international literature, and demonstrates the crucial role of wonder in the travel narratives of writers such as Bruce Chatwin, V.S. Naipaul, and W.G. Sebald. Their ''travellers'' tales of wonder'' are read as a challenge to the hubris of thinking the world too well known, and an invitation to encounter the world - including its most troubling histories - with a sense of wonder.

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