Traveling in place
Subtitle: a history of armchair travel
By: Bernd Stiegler ; translated from the German by Peter Filkins
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780226774671
Subjects: History and criticism; Rooms in literature; Travel in literature; European literature
Work titles: Reisender Stillstand
Description: "Armchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesn't travel require us to leave the house? And yet, anyone who has lost herself for hours in the descriptive pages of a novel or the absorbing images of a film knows the very real feeling of having explored and experienced a different place or time without ever leaving her seat. No passport, no currency, no security screening required--the luxury of armchair travel is accessible to us all. In Traveling in Place, Bernd Stiegler celebrates this convenient, magical means of transport in all its many forms. Like the best guidebooks, Traveling in Place is more interested in the idea of travel as a state of mind than as a physical activity, and Stiegler reflects on the different ways that traveling at home have manifested themselves in the modern era, from literature and film to the virtual possibilities of the Internet, blogs, and contemporary art." -- Publisher website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Brief travel guide; title: The journey around the room; title: Pilgrimages; title: The "Frauenzimmer"; title: Expeditions in the near-at-hand; title: Framed views; title: The life of plants; title: The life of objects; title: The journey through a sea of images; title: Dark chambers; title: Interiors; title: The flâneur; title: Excursion and stopover: around the world in eighty days; title: Peregrinations; title: Travels with a room; title: A cinematic baedeker; title: The journey to la défense; title: Journeys into the world as text; title: The journey into oneself; title: Crossing-crisscrossing; title: Cinematic explorations; title: Near distance; title: The final journey.