UID:
almahu_9949702856002882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xviii, 246 pages) :
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illustrations.
ISBN:
9789004247093
Serie:
Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 55
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Preliminary Material /
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The Art Of Herodotus And The Margins Of The World /
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Travel Descriptions In The Argonautica Of Apollonius Rhodius /
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Alexander The Great And Ancient Travel Stories /
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Egeria The Voyager, Or The Technology Of Remote Sensing In Late Antiquity /
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William Of Rubruck In The Mongol Empire: Perception and Prejudices /
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Marco Polo's Voyages: The Conflict Between Confirmation and Observation /
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Between Mandeville and Columbus: Tvoyage By Joos Van Ghistele /
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Travel Fact and Travel Fiction in the Voyages Of Columbus /
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Different Readings Of Hanno's Voyage From The Renaissance To The Seventeenth Century-From Pure Erudition To Ideological Debate /
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Writing In Exile: Joachim Du Bellay, Rome And Renaissance France /
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The Colouring Effect Of Attic Style And Stoicism In Busbequius's Turkish Letters /
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Barlaeus's Description Of The Dutch Colony In Brazil /
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Gryphius In Italy /
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The Traveller-Author And His Role In Seventeenth-Century German Travel Accounts /
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Thomas Penson: Precursor Of The Sentimental Traveller /
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Goethe's And Stolberg's Italian Journeys And The Romantic Ideology Of Art /
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'The Wheel Of Time Is Rolling For An End' /
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Index /
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Travel Fact and Travel Fiction: Studies on Fiction, Literary Tradition, Scholarly Discovery and Observation in Travel Writing Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 1994, ISBN 9789004101128
Sprache:
Englisch
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