Visions of Persia: Mapping the Travels of Adam OleariusHarvard University Press, 2003 - 238 страници This work examines the travel account of a German baroque author who journeyed in search of silk from Northern Germany, through Muscovy, to the court of Shah Safi in Isfahan. Adam Olearius introduced Persian literature, history, and arts to the German-speaking public; his frank appraisal of Persian customs foreshadows the enlightened spirit of the eighteenth century (influencing Montesquieu's Persian Letters as well as Goethe's West-Eastern Divan) and prepares the way for German Romanticism's infatuation with Persian poetry. Brancaforte focuses on the visual and discursive nexus uniting Olearius's text with the numerous engravings that supplement the book. The emphasis falls on contextualized readings of Olearius's decorative frontispieces and his new and improved map of Persia and the Caspian Sea, as expressions of early modern subjectivity. |
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... ethnography . I should also like to thank my sisters , Daniela and Stephanie for their help and encouragement , and for many conversations on literature and anthropology . And all this would not have been possible without my parents ...
... ethnographic context , " decontextualized , " and then " recontextualized " in a differ- ent setting33— a European , quite understandably , might have thought that it was a skirt . The first representation of Amerindians wearing such ...
... ethnographic information included within the travel account , and are microcosms of the images of the others found within the account . Olearius devotes an entire chapter to Persian clothing in the Vermehrte Newe Reysebeschreibung , and ...
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ADAM OLEARIUS AND THE JOURNEY TO MUSCOVY AND PERSIA | 1 |
ADAM OLEARIUS AND THE EARLYMODERN FRONTISPIECE | 23 |
ADAM OLEARIUS AND THE PERSIANISCHER ROSENTHAL | 67 |
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