Mirrors, Selfies, and Alephs: A Semiotics of Immobility Travelogues
25 Pages
Open Access
Journal:
Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology
Volume 18
Issue 2
pp. 113 - 137
Available soon
Summary
The article focuses on past epidemics and previous confinements, looking for the art of journeying through immobility. It rekindles the plague that ravaged the city of Turin in the 1630s, as well as Xavier de Maistre who, confined in the military citadel in 1790, wrote the
Details
- Pages
- 25
- DOI
- 10.3726/CUL022021.0006
- Open Access
- CC-BY
- Keywords
- travel literature immobility pandemics lockdown semiotics
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