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Marvelous possessions :

(Number (ISBN

0198122667

(Number (ISBN

0198123825

(Number (ISBN

0226306518

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0226306526

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9780198122661

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9780198123828

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9780226306513

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9780226306520

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b714813

Title Proper

Marvelous possessions :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the wonder of the New World /

First Statement of Responsibility

Stephen Greenblatt.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Chicago :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Chicago Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1991.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 202 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

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24 cm

Text of Note

"The Clarendon lectures (Oxford University) and the Carpenter lectures (University of Chicago), 1988"--Page opposite title page.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-194) and index.

Text of Note

Machine derived contents note: List of Illustrations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From the Dome of the Rock to the Rim of the World -- 3. Marvelous Possessions -- 4. Kidnapping Language -- 5. The Go-Between -- Notes -- Index.

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Text of Note

This study examines 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 readings of travel narratives, judicial documents and official documents, Greenblatt shows that "the experience of the marvellous", central to both art and philosophy, was yoked by Columbus and others to 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 marvellous" is not necessarily an agent of empire: in writers as different as Herodotus, Jean de Lery and Montaigne - and notably in "Mandeville's Travels"--Wonder is the sign of a recognition of cultural difference. Greenblatt reaches back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the present to ask how it is possible, in a time of disorientation, hatred of the other and possesiveness, to keep the capacity for wonder from being poisoned.

Colombo, Cristoforo, 1451-1506

Colombo, Cristoforo.

Marvelous, The-- Social aspects.

Travel in literature.

Wonder-- Social aspects.

America-- Discovery and exploration.

földrajzi felfedezés-- Amerika-- 16-17. sz.

Émerveillement-- Aspect social.

Merveilleux-- Aspect social.

Voyage dans la littérature.

Amerikabild

Curiosities and wonders.

Das Wunderbare

Discoveries in geography.

Entdeckung

Literatur

Marvelous, The-- Social aspects.

Travel in literature.

Travel.

Wonder-- Social aspects.

America, Description and travel.

America, Discovery and exploration.

Amérique, Découverte et exploration.

Amérique, Descriptions et voyages.

America.

Amerika

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United States, Illinois, Chicago.

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Greenblatt, Stephen,1943-

Date of Transaction

20201208050419.0

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