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Wanderers : literature, culture and the open road

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This book introduces the idea and experience of wandering, as re-fected in cultural texts from popular songs to philosophical anal-ysis, 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 in-troduction to this signifcant 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 Par-adise Lost to pop songs, from Wordsworth to the blues, from the Wan-dering Jew to the flm Nomadland) demonstrate how representations of wandering have changed across cultures, times, and genres. Wan-derers 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 signifcant concept that will be of interest to those studying or researching literature, cultural studies, and philosophy.

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Call Number

809.93352691 MOR w

Publisher

London : Routledge., 2021

Collation

xii + 143 p

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781003255307

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NONE

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Subject(s)

Language and literature
Nomads in literature
Nomads
Nomads in popular culture

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Statement of Responsibility

by David B. Morris

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