The East And West In Late Medieval Travel Writings
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The East And West In Late Medieval Travel
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Author : Na Chang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
The East And West In Late Medieval Travel written by Na Chang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with categories.
This book traces the history of encounter between Eastern and Western cultures by closely examining a body of medieval travel writings penned or related by Europeans and by inhabitants of East Asia. Whilst these texts are usually considered in the context of kindred European or Chinese literature, this study will make a case for considering them as a common literature of medieval encounters with foreign people. For the modern historian writing in a world that so consciously thinks of itself as global, these accounts offer a precious lens through which to enter into the world before globalization. In particular, the book shows that these narratives show the similarity in how Eastern and Western travellers thought and behaved in the face of difference, and will show that individuals often held somewhat different views, shaped by their particular experience or agendas, than those of their government or of local cultural convention.
The East And West In Late Medieval Travel Writings
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Author : Na Chang
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2024-10-07
The East And West In Late Medieval Travel Writings written by Na Chang 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 2024-10-07 with History categories.
This book traces the history of encounter between Eastern and Western cultures by closely examining a body of medieval travel writings penned or related by Europeans and by inhabitants of East Asia. Whilst these texts are usually considered in the context of kindred European or Chinese literature, this study will make a case for considering them as a common literature of medieval encounters with foreign people. For the modern historian writing in a world that so consciously thinks of itself as ‘global’, these accounts offer a precious lens through which to enter into the world before globalization. In particular, the book shows that these narratives show the similarity in how Eastern and Western travellers thought and behaved in the face of difference, and will show that individuals often held somewhat different views, shaped by their particular experience or agendas, than those of their government or of local cultural convention.
The East And The West In The Travel Writings Of The Late Medieval East And West
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Author : Na Chang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The East And The West In The Travel Writings Of The Late Medieval East And West written by Na Chang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
Travel Narratives The New Science And Literary Discourse 1569 1750
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Author : Judy A. Hayden
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03
Travel Narratives The New Science And Literary Discourse 1569 1750 written by Judy A. Hayden and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Travel categories.
The focus of this volume is the intersection and the cross-fertilization between the travel narrative, literary discourse, and the New Philosophy in the early modern to early eighteenth-century historical periods. Contributors examine how, in an historical era which realized an emphasis on nation and during a time when exploration was laying the foundation for empire, science and the literary discourse of the travel narrative become intrinsically linked. Together, the essays in this collection point out the way in which travel narratives reflect the anxiety from changes brought about through the discoveries of the 'new knowledge' and the way this knowledge in turn provided a new and more complex understanding of the expanding world in which the writers lived. The worlds in this text are many (for no 'world' is monomial), from the antipodes to the New World, from the heavens to the seas, and from fictional worlds to the world which contains and/or constructs one's nation and empire. All of these essays demonstrate the manner in which the New Philosophy dramatically changed literary discourse.
Later Middle English Literature Materiality And Culture
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Author : Brian Gastle
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2018-04-12
Later Middle English Literature Materiality And Culture written by Brian Gastle and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
The essays in this volume consider the ways in which material and intellectual culture both shaped and were shaped by the literature of late medieval England. The first section, “Textual Material,” reflects on cultural and social issues generally referred to as the History of Ideas, and how those ideas manifest in later medieval English texts. Essays address, for example, affect in The Book of Margery Kempe, rhetoric in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, anarchy in late medieval political texts, and temporality in Gower’s Confessio Amantis. The essays in the second section, “Material Texts,” examine physical objects – from pilgrim badges, to manuscripts, to money, to early printed editions – and the cultural behaviors associated with them, interpreting these objects and exploring their connections to the important literary and political texts of the age such as Piers Plowman, Lydgate’s Troy Book, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. All of the essays in this collection emerge from the relationships and connections between the issues that characterize Jim Dean’s work: the cultural, material, and aesthetic aspects of later medieval English literature. So too do they reflect a movement in medieval literary studies presaged by Dean’s career of scholarship and teaching, that critical approaches to literary texts are best undertaken with an understanding of the complex cultural and historical milieu that defines both the production of those texts and the production of our own work on those texts.
The Cambridge Introduction To Travel Writing
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Author : Tim Youngs
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-05-27
The Cambridge Introduction To Travel Writing written by Tim Youngs and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Surveying various works of travel literature, this text argues that travel writing redefines the myriad genres it often comprises.
Before Orientalism
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Author : Kim M. Phillips
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2013-11-14
Before Orientalism written by Kim M. Phillips and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-14 with History categories.
A distinct European perspective on Asia emerged in the late Middle Ages. Early reports of a homogeneous "India" of marvels and monsters gave way to accounts written by medieval travelers that indulged readers' curiosity about far-flung landscapes and cultures without exhibiting the attitudes evident in the later writings of aspiring imperialists. Mining the accounts of more than twenty Europeans who made—or claimed to have made—journeys to Mongolia, China, India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia between the mid-thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Kim Phillips reconstructs a medieval European vision of Asia that was by turns critical, neutral, and admiring. In offering a cultural history of the encounter between medieval Latin Christians and the distant East, Before Orientalism reveals how Europeans' prevailing preoccupations with food and eating habits, gender roles, sexualities, civility, and the foreign body helped shape their perceptions of Asian peoples and societies. Phillips gives particular attention to the texts' known or likely audiences, the cultural settings within which they found a foothold, and the broader impact of their descriptions, while also considering the motivations of their writers. She reveals in rich detail responses from European travelers that ranged from pragmatism to wonder. Fear of military might, admiration for high standards of civic life and court culture, and even delight in foreign magnificence rarely assumed the kind of secular Eurocentric superiority that would later characterize Orientalism. Placing medieval writing on the East in the context of an emergent "Europe" whose explorers sought to learn more than to rule, Before Orientalism complicates our understanding of medieval attitudes toward the foreign.
The Cambridge History Of French Literature
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Author : William Burgwinkle
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-24
The Cambridge History Of French Literature written by William Burgwinkle and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
The most comprehensive history of literature written in French ever produced in English.
Before Orientalism
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Author : Kim M. Phillips
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2014
Before Orientalism written by Kim M. Phillips and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
Drawing on medieval accounts of the earliest European journeys to China, India, Mongolia, and southeast Asia, Before Orientalism explores European attitudes toward Asian eating habits, sexual practices, femininities, and civility, reconstructing a precolonial vision of the East that was often neutral or admiring.
Jews And Journeys
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Author : Joshua Levinson
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2021-08-06
Jews And Journeys written by Joshua Levinson and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-06 with Religion categories.
What happens when Jewish authors—whether by force or of their own free will, whether in reality or in the imagination—travel from one place to another? Jews and Journeys explores what it is about travel writing that enables it to become a central mechanism for exploring the realities and fictions of individual and collective identity.