Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New WorldClarendon Press, 1991 - 202 էջ 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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Էջ 72
... already observed , it is not only the warlike cannibals who awaken wonder . In the letter of 1500 Columbus wishes his readers to think of the Indians as warlike ; in the letter of 1492 he wishes that they be thought timid , indeed ...
... already observed , it is not only the warlike cannibals who awaken wonder . In the letter of 1500 Columbus wishes his readers to think of the Indians as warlike ; in the letter of 1492 he wishes that they be thought timid , indeed ...
Էջ 77
... already become the Christian subjects of the sovereigns of Castile . They are easily imagined as subjects because they are so easily imagined as already subjected , inhabitants of lands appropriated without contradiction ( y no me fué ...
... already become the Christian subjects of the sovereigns of Castile . They are easily imagined as subjects because they are so easily imagined as already subjected , inhabitants of lands appropriated without contradiction ( y no me fué ...
Էջ 88
... already knows and what he can write about them on the basis of that knowledge . If they fail in their promise , they will be demoted from the status of signs and not noticed any longer . It was , after all , the known world that ...
... already knows and what he can write about them on the basis of that knowledge . If they fail in their promise , they will be demoted from the status of signs and not noticed any longer . It was , after all , the known world that ...
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