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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary theory

• Full title: Semiologies of Travel
• Subtitle: From Gautier to Baudrillard
• Author: David Scott
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 246
• EAN: 9780521838535
• ISBN: 0521838533
• ID: 02046280
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 463 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 162 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. September 2004

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