Semiologies of Travel: From Gautier to Baudrillard (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521838535)

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.

Author: David Scott
ISBN-10: 0521838533
ISBN-13: 9780521838535
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/09/2004
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d