The Birth of the Tourist out of the Spirit of Modernity: The travel bug from Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus to Houellebecq’s Platform
Zygmunt Bauman once proposed ‘the tourist’ as one of the four archetypal characters of the postmodern. This suggests more than a coincidental link between postmodernity and the rise of mass tourism. Modernity itself has, of course, long been associated with increasing ease and speed of travel. This...
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| Language: | English |
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SAHkartell
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Studies in Arts and Humanities |
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| Online Access: | https://www.sahjournal.com/article/id/6065/ |