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The Idea Of The Antipodes

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Author : Matthew Boyd Goldie
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-01-31

The Idea Of The Antipodes written by Matthew Boyd Goldie and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-31 with History categories.

A study that uses critical theory to investigate the history of how people have thought about the antipodes - the places and people on the other side of the world - from ancient Greece to present-day literature and digital media.

Images Of The Antipodes In The Eighteenth Century

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Author : David Fausett
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-03-07

Images Of The Antipodes In The Eighteenth Century written by David Fausett and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-07 with Literary Criticism categories.

How did Europeans view the unknown region at their antipodes in early times, before the explorations of Captain Cook and others made it well known? Throughout the ages it has evoked fantastic images which affected the arts and sciences, and the evolution of the novel in the century prior to the major discoveries was influenced in the same way. The eighteenth century was also a critical phase in European social history, a time when many modern patterns of economic life and international relations were formed. Distant explorations and discoveries bore implications for that process, which tended to be worked out in fictional voyages mingling fact with fiction. Images of the Antipodes asks what these can tell us about Europe's expansion to the limits of the New World - about the first contacts between cultures with very different worldviews, about the colonial relations that followed, and about the geopolitics of the region since then. They offer a perspective on cross- cultural relationships generally - nowhere more apparent than in their use of ancient images of the antipodes. This is the third part of a study on the intellectual history of travel fiction, and deals with the period from the 1720s to the 1790s, focusing on an issue that is as vital now as it was then: cultural or racial stereotyping, and the link between this and the differing politico-economic aspirations of peoples. It is a dual problem of exploitation, which has been associated with the antipodes since the beginnings of Western literature. The book discusses teratological fantasies, the literary background in utopias and Robinsonades, Gulliver's Travels and other travel fiction from mid-century onwards, the parallels between real and imaginary voyages, and the way the latter often prefigured the rise of modern anthropology and of colonial relationships in the austral regions. Particularly relevant was the odd blend of arcadianism and horror inspired by, or projected onto, these places in the later eighteenth century - as it had long been in the past. The works discussed are chiefly English and French, but include other European examples of the type.

Antipoden

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Author : Virginie Loveling
language : nl
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892

Antipoden written by Virginie Loveling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with categories.

Zone Of The Marvellous

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Author : Martin Edmond
language : en
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-01

Zone Of The Marvellous written by Martin Edmond and has been published by Auckland University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with History categories.

He's constantly demonstrating that the natural world is as splendiferous as any fable.' - Jim Shepard, New York Times New Zealand and Australia were imagined thousands of years before they became real. From Plato's Atlantis to Dante's Mount Purgatory, Sinbad the Sailor to Abel Tasman, travellers, writers, map-makers, charlatans and rogues dreamed of other worlds at the back of the sun. In Zone of the Marvellous Martin Edmond recounts the fantastic history of the antipodes in the Western imagination. Edmond tells the stories of Gilgamesh, seeking immortality on the other side of the Waters of Death, and Ptolemy, inventing a Great South Land to balance the weight of northern-hemisphere continents. He traces the invention underlying truth in the tales of Marco Polo and the equivocal John Mandeville; and the fact underlying fiction in Thomas More's Utopia. Along the way he wonders if Tasman's dour puritanical character is somehow mirrored in aspects of the New Zealand psyche - and if the Australian character might resemble that of the old pyrating dog and three-times circumnavigator William Dampier, insouciant larrikin and freedom-monger. Shining with intellectual breadth and imaginative reach, Zone of the Marvellous is one person's trawl through the detritus of the past five millennia. Edmond unfolds his inquiry with a weather eye for the always fertile intertwining of fact and fiction that makes up what we call history; for the moments of wonder and wild surmise that invented our Land of Gold, our Great South Land, our Antipodes; and for the sense and the resonant non-sense that keep alive our feeling for the marvellous.

Virtual Voyages

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Author : Paul Longley Arthur
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2011-10

Virtual Voyages written by Paul Longley Arthur and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10 with Literary Criticism categories.

'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'. Written at the height of the era of European maritime exploration, these bizarre and captivating tales, with their wildly imaginative visions of antipodean inversion and strangeness, reveal a hidden history of attitudes to colonization. By exposing the relationship between myth and reality in the antipodes, this book casts new light on the power of fiction to influence history. In the post-colonial studies field, books about travel writing and empire have tended to focus on the high period of nineteenth-century imperialism and on the colonial settings of Africa and India. This book offers a fresh perspective by focussing on the eighteenth century, and referring to the geographical region of Australia and the Pacific, which has had far less attention. The book also breaks new ground by being the first to approach the genre of the imaginary voyage from a post-colonial perspective. In addition to the new insights into European colonialism that it offers, the book illustrates many broader themes in eighteenth-century history and thought. These include connections between the rise of science and modern imperialism, the development of narrative history and fiction and the influence of romanticism, the evolution of the early novel in Britain and France, and the role of mythology in the development of national identity.

Out Here Down Under

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Author : E. A. Judge
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2023-04-24

Out Here Down Under written by E. A. Judge and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-24 with History categories.

Out Here Down Under is a collection of documents and papers illuminating the development and character of ancient ‎history as a discipline in the Antipodes. It considers especially the distinctive and extraordinarily ‎popular program, championed by E. A. Judge, of studying classical and biblical corpora together under ‎one discipline, with an emphasis on the interpretation of documentary sources. ‎In twenty chapters, this volume considers such issues as the relationship between British and ‎Antipodean scholarship, the story and legacy of Antipodean scholars of the ancient world, the ‎nature and ideology of ancient history programs at schools and universities (especially in NSW ‎and at Macquarie), the interaction between biblical and classical disciplines, and the function of ‎history in contemporary Australia. These texts, mostly written by Judge himself throughout his career, appear here with new introductory notes outlining their historical significance for the discipline and Judge's own practice.

Terra Incognita

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Author : Alfred Hiatt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

Terra Incognita written by Alfred Hiatt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Cosmography categories.

This study examines how unknown lands were represented from late Antiquity to 1600 - on maps, and in a variety of written texts, including poetry, treatises, political tracts and travel narratives.

Stelsels Van Optische Antipoden

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Author : Johannes Hermanus Adriani
language : nl
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900

Stelsels Van Optische Antipoden written by Johannes Hermanus Adriani and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1900 with categories.

Antipoden

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Author : H. Kesnig
language : nl
Publisher:
Release Date : 1907

Antipoden written by H. Kesnig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1907 with categories.

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language : en
Publisher: Duncker & Humblot
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