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Travel Fact and Travel Fiction: Studies on Fiction, Literary Tradition, Scholarly Discovery and Observation in Travel Writing: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, cartea 55

Editat de Z.R.W.M. von Martels
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 iul 1994
Travel Fact and Travel Fiction contains 18 articles by different authors on important examples of travel writing from Classical Antiquity (Herodotus) until the first half of the nineteenth century. Discussed are among others Herodotus, Egeria, Rubruck, Marco Polo, Columbus, Joachim Du Bellay, Busbequius, Gryphius, Goethe and Dickens. Central themes are fiction, literary tradition, scholarly discovery and observation.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004101128
ISBN-10: 9004101128
Pagini: 246
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Brill's Studies in Intellectual History


Public țintă

Students and scholars of intellectual history and European literature from classical antiquity until the nineteenth century.

Cuprins

Plates
Preface
Contributors
Introduction: The Eye and the Mind’s Eye

1. The Art of Herodotus and the Margins of the World, Detlev Fehling
2. Travel Descriptions in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius, M.A. Harder
3. Alexander de Great and Ancient Travel Stories, W.J. Aerts
4. Egeria de voyager, or the Technology of Remote Sensing in Late Antiquity, Andrew Palmer
5. William of Rubruck in the Mongol Empire: Perception and Prejudices, Peter Jackson
6. Marco Polo’s Voyages: The Conflict between Confirmation and Observation, Martin Gosman
7. Between Mandeville and Columbus: Tvoyage by Joos van Ghistele, István Bejczy
8. Travel Fact and Travel Fiction in the Voyages of Columbus, Valerie I.J. Flint
9. Different Readings of Hanno’s Voyage from the Renaissance to the Seventeent Century- From Pure
Erudition to Ideological Debate, Monique Mund-Dopchie
10. Writing in Exile: Joachim Du Bellay, Rome, and Renaissance France, G. Hugo Tucker
11. The Colouring Effec Attic Style and Stoicism in Busbequius’s Turkish Letters, Zweder von
Martels

13. Barlacus’s Description of the Dutch Colony in Brazil, A.J.E. Harmsen
14. Gryphius in Italy, Peter Skrine
15.The Traveller-Author ad his Role in Seventeenth-Century German Travel Accounts, Jill Bepler
16.Thomas Penson: Precursor of the Sentimental Traveller, C.D. van Strien
17. Goethe’s and Stolberg’s Italian Journeys and the Romanitc Ideology of Art, Roger Paulin
18. The Wheel of Time is Rolling for an End’, Jan H.A. Lokin

Index

Recenzii

"...ist der Band eine interessante, Kurzweilige und gut lesbare Lektüre."
Astrid Winterhalder, Anthropos, 1997.

"…erhält der Leser einen Eindruck von der Vielfalt sowohl des Gegenstandes als auch der Aufgaben, die mit seiner Erforschung verbunden sind."
Folker Reichert, Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, 2000.

Notă biografică

Zweder von Martels (1954) is Research Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Department of Classics of the University of Groningen. He has published a full length monograph on the 16th-century Flemish humanist Augerius Gislenius Busbequius (1989). His edition of the Latin letters of Busbequius was published in 1994. He is the editor of Alchemy Revisited (Brill) in 1989.