Description:
Since the Early Modern Period, traveling becomes a central strategy enhancing knowledge. At the same time, travel seems to deliver a gateway for the incalculable and unfathomable. Contributions to this addition seek to explore how this type of non-knowledge appears in travelogues and travel fiction in literature, film, and art. Those investigations can show the aesthetic and epistemic dimensions of non-knowledge. As travel is conceptualized both as a medium and a poetical figure reflecting upon knowledge processes this publication will enrich the discussions on theory of knowledge as well as on travel writing.
Review Quotes: "Der Band ist [...] wirklich empfehlenswert. Vorliegendes Buch ist definitiv eine Bereicherung auf dem Feld der Thematisierung von Reiseliteraturen. Zahlreiche Abbildungen [...] erhöhen überdies das Lesevergügen."
Von: Jörg Füllgrabe
In: literaturkritik.de, Nr. 4, April 2017. Online unter: http: //literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez_id=23135