Semiologies of Travel: From Gautier to Baudrillard

ISBN-13: 9780521838535 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 246 str.

David Scott

Opis

Exploring the role of signs in foreign culture encounters as expressed in travel writing, this book focuses on French writers of the last two hundred years. David Scott demonstrates how politics, sociology and semiotics, as well as literature, are connected to the travel experience in this comprehensive survey of travel writing in French culture.

Recenzje

'David Scott's innovative study of the semiologies of travel is a welcome addition to the growing field of works analysing francophone representations of travel. … As the first full-length study to analyse the relationship between travel and semiotics, this important new work paves the way for new modes of investigating travel in the twenty-first century.' French Studies

Spis treści

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.