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1 online resource. |
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Routledge focus on literature
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
"This book introduces the idea and experience of wandering, as reflected in cultural texts from popular songs to philosophical analysis, providing both a fascinating informal history and a necessary vantage point for understanding - in our era - the emergence of new wanderers. Wanderers offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and compelling introduction to this significant and recurrent theme in literary history. David Brown Morris argues that wandering, as a primal and recurrent human experience, is basic to the understanding of certain literary texts. In turn, certain prominent literary and cultural texts (from Paradise Lost to pop songs, from Wordsworth to the blues, from the Wandering Jew to the film Nomadland) demonstrate how representations of wandering have changed across cultures, times, and genres. Wanderers provides an initial overview necessary to grasp the importance of wandering both as a perennial human experience and as a changing historical event, including contemporary forms such as homelessness and climate migration that make urgent claims upon us. Wanderers takes you on a thoroughly enjoyable and informative stroll through a significant concept that will be of interest to those studying or researching literature, cultural studies, and philosophy"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
Biography |
David Brown Morris is a writer-scholar, andEmeritus Professor of English at the University of Virginia, USA. He is very widely published, including two prize-winning books in eighteenth-century studies, and is internationally known for contributions in pain medicine. The Culture of Pain (1991) won a PEN prize and initiates a trilogy that includes Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age (1997) and Eros and Illness (2017). |
Local Note |
Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis eBooks: Open Access |
Subject |
Nomads in literature.
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Nomads in popular culture.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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Nomads in literature. (OCoLC)fst01038456
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Other Form: |
Print version: Morris, David B. Wanderers Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022 9781032136837 (DLC) 2021036311 |
ISBN |
9781003255307 (ebook) |
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9781000521399 (electronic book : EPUB) |
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1000521397 (electronic book : EPUB) |
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9781000521382 (electronic book : PDF) |
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9781032136837 (hardback) |
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9781032185965 (paperback) |
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1000521389 (electronic book : PDF) |
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1003255302 |
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