Travel Fact and Travel Fiction

Studies on Fiction, Literary Tradition, Scholarly Discovery and Observation in Travel Writing
Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-90-04-10112-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 55, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martels, Z R W M von

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.