Semiologies of Travel: From Gautier to Baudrillard

by David H.T. Scott

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521838533
• ISBN13: 9780521838535
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"