Greece In Early English Travel Writing 1596 1682
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Greece In Early English Travel Writing 1596 1682
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Author : Efterpi Mitsi
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-09-14
Greece In Early English Travel Writing 1596 1682 written by Efterpi Mitsi and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-14 with History categories.
This book examines the letters, diaries, and published accounts of English and Scottish travelers to Greece in the seventeenth century, a time of growing interest in ancient texts and the Ottoman Empire. Through these early encounters, this book analyzes the travelers’ construction of Greece in the early modern Mediterranean world and shows how travel became a means of collecting and disseminating knowledge about ancient sites. Focusing on the mobility and exchange of people, artifacts, texts, and opinions between the two countries, it argues that the presence of Britons in Greece and of Greeks in England aroused interest not only in Hellenic antiquity, but also in Greece’s contemporary geopolitical role. Exploring myth, perception, and trope with clarity and precision, this book offers new insight into the connections between Greece, the Ottoman Empire, and the West.
Greeks And Trojans On The Early Modern English Stage
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Author : Lisa Hopkins
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-01-20
Greeks And Trojans On The Early Modern English Stage written by Lisa Hopkins and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-20 with Drama categories.
No story was more interesting to Shakespeare and his contemporaries than that of Troy, partly because the story of Troy was in a sense the story of England, since the Trojan prince Aeneas was supposedly the ancestor of the Tudors. This book explores the wide range of allusions to Greece and Troy in plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, looking not only at plays actually set in Greece or Troy but also those which draw on characters and motifs from Greek mythology and the Trojan War. Texts covered include Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Othello, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Pericles and The Tempest as well as plays by other authors of the period including Marlowe, Chettle, Ford and Beaumont and Fletcher.
British Encounters With Ottoman Minorities In The Early Seventeenth Century
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Author : Eva Johanna Holmberg
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-05-12
British Encounters With Ottoman Minorities In The Early Seventeenth Century written by Eva Johanna Holmberg and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
British travellers regarded all inhabitants of the seventeenth-century Ottoman empire as ‘slaves of the sultan’, yet they also made fine distinctions between them. This book provides the first historical account of how British travellers understood the non-Muslim peoples they encountered in Ottoman lands, and of how they perceived and described them in the mediating shadow of the Turks. In doing so it changes our perceptions of the European encounter with the Ottomans by exploring the complex identities of the subjects of the Ottoman empire in the English imagination, de-centering the image of the ‘Terrible Turk’ and Islam.
English Explorers In The East 1738 1745
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Author : Rachel Finnegan
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-06-17
English Explorers In The East 1738 1745 written by Rachel Finnegan and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-17 with History categories.
In English Explorers in the East (1738-1745). The Travels of Thomas Shaw, Charles Perry and Richard Pococke, Rachel Finnegan examines the influential travel writings of three rival explorers, whose eastern travel books were printed within a decade of each other.
Describing The City Describing The State
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Author : Sandra Toffolo
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-06-29
Describing The City Describing The State written by Sandra Toffolo and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-29 with History categories.
A detailed analysis of descriptions of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance, when both the city of Venice and the mainland state were undergoing fundamental changes.
War On The Human
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Author : Konstantinos Blatanis
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2017-05-11
War On The Human written by Konstantinos Blatanis and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
The essays in this collection explore the question of the human, both as a contested concept and as it relates to, and functions within, the wider global conjuncture. The authors explore the theoretical underpinnings of the term “human,” inviting the reader to reflect upon the contemporary human condition, to identify opportunities and threats in the changes ahead, and to determine what aspects of our species we should abandon or strive to maintain. The volume approaches these ideas from a myriad of perspectives, but the authors are united in their abstention from rejecting humanism outright or, indeed, fully endorsing posthumanism‘s teleological narrative of accelerated progress and perfectability. Instead, the authors argue that the term “human” itself is better understood as a concept perpetually undergoing revision, and is necessarily subject to scrutiny. The contributors here are thus concerned with investigating the following questions: What does it mean to be human, or to have a self? What is the current place or status of the human in the contemporary world? As technology is increasingly used to modify our bodies and minds, to what extent should we alter – and how can we improve – our very understanding of human nature? The authors contend that literature is the art form best placed to answer these questions. In its dynamism and discursiveness, literature has the capacity to both reflect dominant discourses and ideologies, as well as to generate and even anticipate social change; to critique and refine conventional ideas and existing cultural modes, and to envision new possibilities for the future. The human and its literary representation, in other words, are inherently intertwined.
Receptions Of Hellenism In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Natasha Constantinidou
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-10-21
Receptions Of Hellenism In Early Modern Europe written by Natasha Constantinidou and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An investigation of modes of receiving and responding to Greek culture in diverse contexts throughout early modern Europe, in order to encourage a more over-arching understanding of the multifaceted phenomenon of early modern Hellenism and its multiple receptions.
Hotel Modernisms
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Author : Anna Despotopoulou
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-03-14
Hotel Modernisms written by Anna Despotopoulou and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of essays explores the hotel as a site of modernity, a space of mobility and transience that shaped the transnational and transcultural modernist activity of the first half of the twentieth century. As a trope for social and cultural mobility, transitory and precarious modes of living, and experiences of personal and political transformation, the hotel space in modernist writing complicates binaries such as public and private, risk and rootedness, and convention and experimentation. It is also a prime location for modernist production and the cross-fertilization of heterogeneous, inter- and trans- literary, cultural, national, and affective modes. The study of the hotel in the work of authors such as E. M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield, Kay Boyle, and Joseph Roth reveals the ways in which the hotel nuances the notions of mobilities, networks, and communities in terms of gender, nation, and class. Whereas Mary Butts, Djuna Barnes, Anaïs Nin, and Denton Welch negotiate affective and bodily states which arise from the alienation experienced at liminal hotel spaces and which lead to new poetics of space, Vicki Baum, Georg Lukács, James Joyce, and Elizabeth Bishop explore the socio-political and cultural conflicts which are manifested in and by the hotel. This volume invites us to think of “hotel modernisms” as situated in or enabled by this dynamic space. Including chapters which traverse the boundaries of nation and class, it regards the hotel as the transcultural space of modernity par excellence.
Ruins In The Literary And Cultural Imagination
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Author : Efterpi Mitsi
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-11-28
Ruins In The Literary And Cultural Imagination written by Efterpi Mitsi and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are appropriated and imagined in different forms of writing. Examining British and American literature and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book begins in the era of industrial modernity with studies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Henry James and Daphne Du Maurier. It then moves on to the significance of ruins in the twentieth century, against the backdrop of conflict, waste and destruction, analyzing authors such as Beckett and Pinter, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton and Leonard Cohen. The collection concludes with current debates on ruins, through discussions of Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht, as well as reflections on the refugee crisis that take the ruin beyond the text, offering new perspectives on its diverse legacies and conceptual resources.
The Edge Of Christendom On The Early Modern Stage
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Author : Lisa Hopkins
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-03-07
The Edge Of Christendom On The Early Modern Stage written by Lisa Hopkins and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-07 with History categories.
Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the edges of Europe were under pressure from the Ottoman Turks. This book explores how Shakespeare and his contemporaries represented places where Christians came up against Turks, including Malta, Tunis, Hungary, and Armenia. Some forms of Christianity itself might seem alien, so the book also considers the interface between traditional Catholicism, new forms of Protestantism, and Greek and Russian orthodoxy. But it also finds that the concept of Christendom was under threat in other places, some much nearer to home. Edges of Christendom could be found in areas that were or had been pagan, such as Rome itself and the Danelaw, which once covered northern England; they could even be found in English homes and gardens, where imported foreign flowers and exotic new ingredients challenged the concept of what was native and natural.