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Veiled encounters : representing the Orient in 17th-century French travel literature /
Travel narratives were the principal source of knowledge about the lands of the Near East and the Indian Ocean Basin in 17th-century France. Claiming the authority of first-hand observation, they paradoxically rely for their legitimization on the tropes of an established literary tradition. The stat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Faux titre ;
no. 321. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Capturing cultural encounter
- The literature of encounter
- Threat and the Near East
- The East Indies : le jardin de l'Orient
- Aventures in the Orient
- Conclusion.