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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... questions of authorship , political power , and intellectual influence ( such as the Islamic sources that are silenced in Olearius's text ) . In general , my analysis addresses the question of representation , namely how the object of ...
... question whether the Caspian is in fact a lake . Olearius lists all the writers before him , who had assumed that the Caspian Sea was connected to other bodies of water , but he agrees with Aristotle and Herodotus , who say that it is ...
... question is important for later discussions con- cerning both the history of the sea's representation and the influence of Islamic geography on Olearius's map , the entire text is quoted here : Die länge der Caspischen See wird in ...
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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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