Greece In Early English Travel Writing 1596 1682
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Greece in Early English Travel Writing 1596 1682
Author | : Efterpi Mitsi |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2017-09-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783319626123 |
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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
Author | : Lisa Hopkins |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2020-01-20 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781501514623 |
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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
Author | : Eva Johanna Holmberg |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2022-05-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783030972288 |
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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
Author | : Rachel Finnegan |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2019-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004404229 |
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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
Author | : Sandra Toffolo |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2020-06-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004428201 |
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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
Author | : Konstantinos Blatanis,Theodora Tsimpouki |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2017-05-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781443893787 |
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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
Author | : Natasha Constantinidou,Han Lamers |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 583 |
Release | : 2019-10-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789004402461 |
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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
Author | : Anna Despotopoulou,Vassiliki Kolocotroni,Efterpi Mitsi |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2023-03-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781000834307 |
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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.