Travel Fact and Travel Fiction

Studies on Fiction, Literary Tradition, Scholarly Discovery and Observation in Travel Writing

AvZ.R.W.M. von Martels

Inbunden, Engelska, 1994

Del 55 i serien Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

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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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Utgivningsdatum:1994-08-01
Mått:155 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:638 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Antal sidor:246
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004101128

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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.

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"...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.

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PlatesPrefaceContributorsIntroduction: The Eye and the Mind’s Eye1. The Art of Herodotus and the Margins of the World, Detlev Fehling2. Travel Descriptions in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius, M.A. Harder3. Alexander de Great and Ancient Travel Stories, W.J. Aerts4. Egeria de voyager, or the Technology of Remote Sensing in Late Antiquity, Andrew Palmer5. William of Rubruck in the Mongol Empire: Perception and Prejudices, Peter Jackson6. Marco Polo’s Voyages: The Conflict between Confirmation and Observation, Martin Gosman7. Between Mandeville and Columbus: Tvoyage by Joos van Ghistele, István Bejczy8. Travel Fact and Travel Fiction in the Voyages of Columbus, Valerie I.J. Flint9. Different Readings of Hanno’s Voyage from the Renaissance to the Seventeent Century- From Pure Erudition to Ideological Debate, Monique Mund-Dopchie10. Writing in Exile: Joachim Du Bellay, Rome, and Renaissance France, G. Hugo Tucker11. The Colouring Effec Attic Style and Stoicism in Busbequius’s Turkish Letters, Zweder von Martels13. Barlacus’s Description of the Dutch Colony in Brazil, A.J.E. Harmsen14. Gryphius in Italy, Peter Skrine15.The Traveller-Author ad his Role in Seventeenth-Century German Travel Accounts, Jill Bepler16.Thomas Penson: Precursor of the Sentimental Traveller, C.D. van Strien17. Goethe’s and Stolberg’s Italian Journeys and the Romanitc Ideology of Art, Roger Paulin18. The Wheel of Time is Rolling for an End’, Jan H.A. LokinIndex