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Darrera modificació: 2009-08-16
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Martels, Zweder von (ed.), Travel fact and travel fiction: studies on fiction, literary tradition, scholarly discovery, and observation in travel writing, Leiden - Nova York, E. J. Brill (Brill's studies in intellectual history, 55), 1994, xviii + 246 pp.
- Resum
- 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.
Conté (entre d'altres):
* William of Rubruck in the Mongol Empire: perception and prejudices / Peter Jackson (54-71)
* Marco Polos' Voyages: the conflict between confirmation and observation / Martin Gosman (72-84)
* Between Mandeville and Columbus: Tvoyage by Joos van Ghistele / István Bejczi (85-93)
* Travel fact and travel fiction in the voyages of Columbus / Valerie I. J. Flint (94-110)
- Matèries
- Geografia i viatges
- Notes
- Includes papers from the conference "Travel desriptions: fiction, literary tradition, scholarly discovery and observation" (Groningen, 1992).
- URL
- http://books.google.com/books?id=ZZ5ZH-f38E4C&lpg=P ...
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