Marvelous possessions
the wonder of the New World
By Stephen Greenblatt
"Marvelous possessions" was published by University of Chicago Press in 1991 - Chicago, it has 202 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Marvelous possessions” Metadata:
- Title: Marvelous possessions
- Author: Stephen Greenblatt
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 202
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publish Date: 1991
- Publish Location: Chicago
“Marvelous possessions” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ America - Antiquities - Description and travel - Discovery and exploration - First contact with Europeans - History - Indians - Public opinion - Social aspects - Social aspects of The marvelous - Social aspects of Wonder - Sources - The Marvelous - Travel in literature - Wonder - Emerveillement - Amerikabild - Entdeckung - Decouverte et exploration - Descriptions et voyages - Travel - Aspect social - Literatur - Das Wunderbare - Foldrajzi felfedezes - Voyage dans la litterature - Discoveries in geography - Merveilleux - Marvelous, The - Curiosities and wonders - America, discovery and exploration - America, description and travel - Indians, first contact with europeans - Indians, history - Public opinion, europe - America, antiquities - First contact with other peoples
- Places: America - Europe
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: ix, 202 p., [8] p. of plates :
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL2027415M - OL4083169W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 23649426
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 91003447
- ISBN-13: 9780226306513
- ISBN-10: 0226306518
- All ISBNs: 0226306518 - 9780226306513
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"Marvelous possessions" Description:
The Open Library:
This study examines the ways in which Europeans of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, in particular the New World. In a series of readings of travel narratives, judicial documents and official documents, Greenblatt shows that "the experience of the marvellous", central to both art and philosophy, was yoked by Columbus and others to service of colonial appropriation. He argues that the traditional symbolic actions and legal rituals through which European sovereignty was asserted were strained to breaking point by the unprecedented nature of the discovery of the New World. But the book also shows that "the experience of the marvellous" is not necessarily an agent of empire: in writers as different as Herodotus, Jean de Lery and Montaigne - and notably in "Mandeville's Travels"--Wonder is the sign of a recognition of cultural difference. Greenblatt reaches back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the present to ask how it is possible, in a time of disorientation, hatred of the other and possesiveness, to keep the capacity for wonder from being poisoned.
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