During the interwar period America and Russia provided German travel writers with opposing visions of Germany's future, as well as blank screens for the projections of their hopes and anxieties. The travel literature genre allowed authors and readers to approach Weimar Germany's social issues from a psychologically safe distance. This is the first book to analyze the American and Russian travels of Kisch, Toller, Holitscher, Goldschmidt, and Rundt from a psychogeographic and imagologic perspective. It is a work of ...
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During the interwar period America and Russia provided German travel writers with opposing visions of Germany's future, as well as blank screens for the projections of their hopes and anxieties. The travel literature genre allowed authors and readers to approach Weimar Germany's social issues from a psychologically safe distance. This is the first book to analyze the American and Russian travels of Kisch, Toller, Holitscher, Goldschmidt, and Rundt from a psychogeographic and imagologic perspective. It is a work of particular interest to researchers and students of travel literature, cultural studies, the construction and perception of the �other, � and literary psychology.
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Publisher:
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published:
2006
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
13441046261
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Very good. 2006 hardcover published without jacket/slight wear on the cover/clean & unmarked. 238 p. Contains: Illustrations. Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, 81.
Publisher:
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published:
2006
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17452101384
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Good. ***2006 hardcover published without jacket/ex-library with usual markings & bumping on the cover/clean & unmarked text. 238 p. Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, 81.