Into the White : The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image /

European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet, as Christopher Heuer explains, between 1500 and 1700, one region upended all of these conventions in travel writing...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heuer, Christopher P. (auteur.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Brooklyn, NY : Zone Books, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Arts, Renaissance > Themes, motives.
Arts de la Renaissance > Thèmes, motifs.
Arctic Regions.
Arctique > Dans l'art.
Arctic regions > In art.
Art.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • We could not see out of our eyes
  • The stars down to earth
  • 'A strange quantity of ice'
  • The savage episteme
  • A Roman interruption : Olaus Magnus, 1555
  • Arctic ink
  • There are no fortresses.

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