Semiologies of Travel From Gautier to Baudrillard |
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| Author:
| Scott, David |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-83853-5 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2004 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $94.99 |
Book Description:
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This is the first book to explore comprehensively the role of signs in the encounter with foreign cultures as expressed in travel writing. Focusing on French writers of the last two hundred years, it shows how politics, sociology and semiotics, as well as literature are bound up in travel experience.
This is the first book to explore comprehensively the role of signs in the encounter with foreign cultures as expressed in travel writing. Focusing on French writers of the last two hundred years, it shows how politics, sociology and semiotics, as well as literature are bound up in travel experience.