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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... travels , and rein- forces the notion of the Great Chain of Being . The explorer writes his observations into his magnum opus , the travel account writes in " das grosse Wunderbuch die Welt " ( GK , 3b ) . just as God It is also ...
... TRAVEL ACCOUNT The motif of flaying was employed in other Early - Modern European frontispieces that were associated with the Orient . A partic- ularly horrifying example of this motif can be seen on the frontispiece to ... Travel Account 11.
Mapping the Travels of Adam Olearius Elio Christoph Brancaforte. that it mirrors the travel account itself , which contains such a pletho- ra of knowledge about the country that it is not always easy to sift through . A number of ...
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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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