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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.

Table of Contents:
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.

About the Author :
David Scott holds a personal chair in French (Textual and Visual Studies) at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Pictorialist Poetics (Cambridge, 1988), Paul Delvaux: Surrealising The Nude (1992) and European Stamp Design: A Semiotic Approach (1995).

Review :
'In Semiologies of Travel David Scott offers the reader a veritable kaleidoscope of literature, images, and criticism in order to illustrate how the experience of travel demands its own sort of reading. ... a lucid and poetic reflection on the semiologies of our time. ... For the reader interested in the way semiologies directly affect our experience of the world, Scott offers practical and clear explanations of how we read.' French Forum 'The author successfully avoids the diachronic approach common to many surveys of travel literature in order to create connections, intertextual or otherwise, between authors and texts either from different period or concerned with often very different locales ... The field of reference is wide ... Where the study excels is in its Peircian explorations, complex yet illuminating ... Semiologies of Travel is to be read ... as a challenging intervention in studies in travel writing, outlining an exemplary semiological approach at a time when the field is rapidly elaborating its own critical terminology and associated research paradigms.' MLR


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780521838535
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 246
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 548 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0521838533
  • Publisher Date: 09 Sep 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: From Gautier to Baudrillard
  • Width: 162 mm


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