Screen LibraryTravel fact and travel fiction : studies on fiction, literary tradition, scholarly discovery, and observation in travel writing /
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, Busbeq...
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| Published: |
E.J. Brill,
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| Publisher Address: | Leiden ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 1994. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Brill's studies in intellectual history,
v. 55 |
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| Summary: |
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. |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9004101128 9789004101128 |
| Index Number: | G151 |
| CLC: | I106.6 |
| Call Number: | LVC-001597 |
| Contents: |
The art of Herodotus and the margins of the world / Travel descriptions in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius / Alexander the Great and ancient travel stories / Egeria the Voyager, of the technology of remote sensing in late antiquity / William of Rubruck in the Mongol empire : perception and prejudices / Marco Polo's voyages : the conflict between confirmation and observation / Between Mandeville and Columbus : Tvoyage by Joos van Ghistele / |