The Resource The bells in their silence : travels through Germany, Michael Gorra
The bells in their silence : travels through Germany, Michael Gorra
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The item The bells in their silence : travels through Germany, Michael Gorra represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the "German problem," World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Wall, reunification, and the connections between them. But not travel books, not the free-ranging and impressionistic works of literary nonfiction we associate with V.S. Naipaul and Bruce Chatwin. What is it about Germany and the travel book that puts them seemingly at odds? With one foot in the library and one on the street, Michael Gorra offers both an answer to this question and his own trav
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xvii, 211 pages)
- Contents
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- Preface: The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog; CHAPTER ONE: Cultural Capital; CHAPTER TWO: The Peculiarities of German Travel; CHAPTER THREE: Visible Cities; CHAPTER FOUR: The Dentist's House; CHAPTER FIVE: Fragments and Digressions; CHAPTER SIX: Hauptstadt; CHAPTER SEVEN: Family Chronicles; Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading; Acknowledgments; Index
- Isbn
- 9781400826018
- Label
- The bells in their silence : travels through Germany
- Title
- The bells in their silence
- Title remainder
- travels through Germany
- Statement of responsibility
- Michael Gorra
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the "German problem," World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Wall, reunification, and the connections between them. But not travel books, not the free-ranging and impressionistic works of literary nonfiction we associate with V.S. Naipaul and Bruce Chatwin. What is it about Germany and the travel book that puts them seemingly at odds? With one foot in the library and one on the street, Michael Gorra offers both an answer to this question and his own trav
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gorra, Michael Edward
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Travel writing
- Germany
- Germany
- TRAVEL
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Literature
- Travel
- Travel writing
- Germany
- Label
- The bells in their silence : travels through Germany, Michael Gorra
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preface: The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog; CHAPTER ONE: Cultural Capital; CHAPTER TWO: The Peculiarities of German Travel; CHAPTER THREE: Visible Cities; CHAPTER FOUR: The Dentist's House; CHAPTER FIVE: Fragments and Digressions; CHAPTER SIX: Hauptstadt; CHAPTER SEVEN: Family Chronicles; Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading; Acknowledgments; Index
- Control code
- ocn436874210
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xvii, 211 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400826018
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttxr10
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)436874210
- Label
- The bells in their silence : travels through Germany, Michael Gorra
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preface: The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog; CHAPTER ONE: Cultural Capital; CHAPTER TWO: The Peculiarities of German Travel; CHAPTER THREE: Visible Cities; CHAPTER FOUR: The Dentist's House; CHAPTER FIVE: Fragments and Digressions; CHAPTER SIX: Hauptstadt; CHAPTER SEVEN: Family Chronicles; Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading; Acknowledgments; Index
- Control code
- ocn436874210
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xvii, 211 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400826018
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttxr10
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)436874210
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