Traveling in place : a history of armchair travel /

Stiegler, Bernd

Traveling in place : a history of armchair travel / Bernd Stiegler ; translated from the German by Peter Filkins - Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, c2013. - 253 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Brief travel guide -- The journey around the room -- Pilgrimages -- The "Frauenzimmer" -- Expeditions in the near-at-hand -- Framed views -- The life of plants -- The life of objects -- The journey through a sea of images -- Dark chambers -- Interiors -- The flâneur -- Excursion and stopover: around the world in eighty days -- Peregrinations -- Travels with a room -- A cinematic baedeker -- The journey to la défense -- Journeys into the world as text -- The journey into oneself -- Crossing-crisscrossing -- Cinematic explorations -- Near distance -- The final journey.

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Travel in Literature
Rooms in Literature
European Literature--History and Criticism

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