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Książka Marvelous Possessions Stephen J. Greenblatt

Marvelous Possessions

The Wonder of the New World. The Clarendon Lectures and the Carpenter Lectures 1988

Autor: Stephen J. Greenblatt
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydawca: Oxford University Press
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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329.91 zł
'And there I found very many islands filled with people innumerable, and of all of them I have taken...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Stephen J. Greenblatt
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
1992
strony
216
EAN
9780198122661
ISBN
0198122667
Enbook ID
04864681
Wydawca
Oxford University Press
Waga
335
Wymiary
153 x 235 x 13

Pełny opis

'And there I found very many islands filled with people innumerable, and of all of them I have taken possession for their highnesses, by proclamation made and with the royal standard unfurled, and no one contradicted me' - Christopher Columbus Marvelous Possessions is a study of the ways in which Europeans of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, in particular the New World. In a series of innovative readings of travel narratives, judicial documents, and official reports, Greenblatt shows that the experience of the marvelous, central to both art and philosophy, was cunningly yoked by Columbus and others to the service of colonial appropriation. He argues that the traditional symbolic actions and legal rituals through which European sovereignty was asserted were strained to breaking-point by the unprecedented nature of the discovery of the New World. But the book also shows that the experience of the marvelous is not necessarily an agent of empire: in writers as different as Herodotus, Jean de Lery, and Montaigne - and notably in Mandeville's Travels, the most popular travel book of the Middle Ages - wonder is the sign of a remarkably tolerant recognition of cultural difference.

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