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How do the places we live in and visit shape our lives and memories? What does it mean to reside in different locations across the span of a life? In richly textured portraits of places seen from within, Nicholas Howe contemplates how places create and gather their stories and how, in turn, a sense of place locates the stories of our own lives. Howe begins with one of the finest descriptions ever written of Buffalo, that city on an inland sea where he grew up. He gives us a fresh Paris, viewed from the river below. And he depicts Oklahoma as a site of open lands and dislocation - a place of coming and going. Howe then turns to Chartres, a traditional location of pilgrimage, to ask what other sites might still be capable of compelling visitors in secular time. He portrays Berlin as a scene of twentieth-century history - and a city that helped him make sense of his American life. Finally, he writes about Columbus, Ohio, as home. Vividly rendering the places he has known, Howe meditates on the weight of home, the temptations of the metropolis, the fact of dislocation, the unraveling of history, the desire to remake ourselves through voyage, and the wonder of the familiar. In ways that too often elude travel writers, it is place that holds our imagination, that inspires much of our art and literature. "Across an Inland Sea" evokes the various senses of place that can fill and haunt a life - and ultimately give life its form and meaning.

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Zaradenie knihy Knihy po anglicky Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Celý názov: Across an Inland Sea
• Podnázov: Writing in Place from Buffalo to Berlin
• Autor: Nicholas Howe
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Pevná
• Počet strán: 224
• EAN: 9780691113654
• ISBN: 0691113653
• ID: 04640654
• Nakladateľ: Princeton University Press
• Hmotnosť: 397 g
• Rozmery: 216 × 140 × 17 mm
• Dátum vydania: 03. March 2003

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