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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400826018
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050 4 _aDD21.5.G67 2004
072 7 _aLIT004170
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aGorra, Michael
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Bells in Their Silence :
_bTravels through Germany /
_cMichael Gorra.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c©2004
300 _a1 online resource
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505 0 0 _t Frontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface. The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog --
_tOne. Cultural Capital --
_tTwo. The Peculiarities of German Travel --
_tThree. Visible Cities --
_tFour. The Dentist's House --
_tFive. Fragments and Digressions --
_tSix. Hauptstadt --
_tSeven. Family Chronicles --
_tSources and Suggestions for Further Reading --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aNobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the "German problem," World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Wall, reunification, and the connections between them. But not travel books, not the free-ranging and impressionistic works of literary nonfiction we associate with V. S. Naipaul and Bruce Chatwin. What is it about Germany and the travel book that puts them seemingly at odds? With one foot in the library and one on the street, Michael Gorra offers both an answer to this question and his own traveler's tale of Germany. 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / German.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
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