Semiologies of Travel

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-521-83853-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

Semiologies of Travel is the first book to explore comprehensively the role of semiology and signs in the encounter with foreign cultures as it is expressed in French travel writing. David Scott focuses on major writers of the last two hundred years, including Théophile Gautier, André Gide, Henri Michaux, Michel Leiris, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard, to show how ethnology, politics, sociology and semiotics, as well as literature, are deeply bound up in travel experience and the writing that emerges from it. Scott also shows how the concerns of Romantic writers and theorists are still relevant to reflections on travel in today's post-modern world. The book follows an itinerary through jungle, desert and Utopia, as well as through Disneyland and Chinese restaurants, and will be of interest to specialists in French studies and cultural studies as well as to readers of travel writing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scott, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Reading signs: foregrounding the signifier from Gautier to Baudrillard; 2. The other as interpretant: from Segalen and Michaux to the ethno-roman; 3. Identity crises: 'Je est un autre', Gautier, Gauguin, Nerval, Bouvier; 4. Utopias and dystopias: back in the US/USSR, Gide, Baudrillard, Disneyland; 5. Signs in the desert: from Chateaubriand to Baudrillard; 6. Jungle books: misreading the jungle with Gide, Michaux and Leiris; 7. Grammars of gastronomy, the raw and the cooked: Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, Boman and Leiris; Conclusion: writing difference, coming home to write.

Über Autor(innen)

Scott, David
David Scott holds a personal chair in French (Textual and Visual Studies) at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Pictorialist Poetics (Cambridge, 1988), Paul Delvaux: Surrealising The Nude (1992) and European Stamp Design: A Semiotic Approach (1995).