Traveling in place : a history of armchair travel / Bernd Stiegler ; translated from the German by Peter Filkins
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TextPublication details: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, c2013Description: 253 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780226774671; 0226774678 Subject(s): Travel in Literature | Rooms in Literature | European Literature -- History and CriticismDDC classification: 809.9332 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 809.9332 STI/H (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P35198 |
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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