Semiologies of Travel
Subtitle: From Gautier to Baudrillard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 4, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780521838535
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary theory; Literary Criticism; European - General; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Europe; European - French; Literary Collections / Continental European; 19th century; 20th century; French literature; History and criticism; Semiotics
First sentence: The relationship between sign systems and travel, the symbolic and the real, seems to have been of fundamental concern to European writers from the beginning of the age of exploration - on both a hermeneutic and semiotic level.