Under Eastern Eyes
Twelve studies explicitly developed to elaborate on travel writing published in book form by east Europeans travelling in Europe from ca. 1550 to 2000. How did east Europeans have positioned themselves with relation to the notion of Europe, and how has the genre of travel writing served as a means of exploring and disseminating these ideas?
A truly comparative and collective work with a substantial introductory study, the book has taken full advantage of the interdisciplinary and comparative potential of the team of project scholars working in the different national literatures, from different disciplinary perspectives.
This is the second volume of a three-part set of East Looks West. Vol. 1. Orientations. An Anthology of East European Travel Writing on Europe. Vol. 3. A Bibliography of East European Travel Writing on Europe.
Foreword
Wendy Bracewell, Alex Drace-Francis
1. Towards a natural history of east European travel writing
Alex Drace-Francis
2. The travel narrative as a (literary) genre
David Chirico
3. The limits of Europe in east European travel writing
Wendy Bracewell
4. ‘They are laughing at us’: Hungarian travellers and early modern European identity
Graeme Murdock
5. Travels through the Slav world
Wendy Bracewell
6. The Odyssey of national discovery: Hungarians in Hungary and abroad, 1750-1850
Irina V. Popova-Nowak
7. European identity and Romantic irony: Juliusz Slowacki’s journey to Greece
Maria Kalinowska
8. Metaphor and monumentality: The travels of Nicolae Iorga
Andi Mihalache
9. Oh, to be a European! What Rastko Petrović learnt in Africa
Zoran Milutinović
10. Excursions into national specificity and European identity: Mihail Sebastian’s interwar travel reportage
Diana Georgescu
11. The Cold-War traveller’s gaze: Jan Lenica’s 1954 sketchbook of London
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius
12. Images of the West in Bulgarian travel writing during socialism (1945-1989)
Rossitza Guentcheva
Notes on contributors