Departure Lounge Travel and Literature in the Post Modern World
, by Needham, JohnNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781857544435 | 1857544439
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/1/1999
Presenting a variety of essays, apercus and anecdotes which capture the centrality of the human and humane in modern literature and life, this intriguing collection details reports from conferences and seminars around the world. John Needham has produced an accessible, entertaining and amusing collection of articles which reports on the front line battles between literatureas well as film, architecture, and artand theory. From John Portman's Westin Bonaventure hotel in LA, on which Frederic Jameson wrote, to the problems summoned by a conjunction of D.H. Lawrence and Derrida in Texas, these essays explore the links between geography, culture, travel and learning.