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The Balkans in travel writing
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ISBN: 144388345X 9781443883450 1443876372 9781443876377 Year: 2015 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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This book revisits images of the Balkans in twentieth-century travel writing that vividly mirrors the turbulent changes that the region went through. As such, it provides a vital basis for research into the variety of possibilities, or obstacles, present on the region's path to accession, when its unique heritage will have to be reconciled with a more European identity. This volume explores the work of well-known authors, such as Rebecca West, Paul Theroux, Robert D. Kaplan, and also contributes to travel writing theory by addressing less-known travellers who recorded their thoughts on the soc


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The beauty of convention
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ISBN: 144386112X 9781443861120 1306859026 9781306859028 9781443854696 1443854697 Year: 2014 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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This volume addresses the beauty of convention not in an attempt to recapitulate established values (as, luckily, in literature and culture, there are not absolute beauties that serve everyone and always), but as an aesthetic appreciation of form as a keeper of meaning and as an ethical post-cynical metadiscourse on human dependence on symbolic interaction and generic conventions. Looking into the artificial, invented, side of this concept, the book addresses such questions as: What is beauty...

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