Description: Further DetailsTitle: Writing EastCondition: NewEAN: 9780812233438ISBN: 9780812233438Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/29/1997Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 155mmAuthor: Iain Macleod HigginsLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The "Travels" of Sir John MandevilleISBN-10: 0812233433Description: No work revealed more of the mysterious East to statesmen, explorers, readers, and writers of the late Middle Ages than the Book of John Mandeville. One of the most widely circulated documents of its day, it first appeared in French between 1356 and 1371 and was soon translated into nine other European languages. Ostensibly the account of one English knight's journeys through Africa and Asia, it is, rather, a compilation of travel writings first shaped by an unknown redactor.Writing East is a study of how Mandeville's Travels came to appear in its various versions, explaining how it went through a series of transformations as it reached new audiences in order to serve as both a response to previous writings about the East and an important voice in the medieval conversation about the nature and limits of the world. Higgins offers a palimpsestic reading of this "multi-text" that demonstrates not only how the original French author overwrote his precursors but also how subsequent translators molded the material to serve their own ideological agendas.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Travel & TransportBook Series: Middle Ages SeriesTopic: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 1997 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Writing East
Title: Writing East
EAN: 9780812233438
ISBN: 9780812233438
Release Date: 03/29/1997
Release Year: 1997
Subtitle: The "Travels" of Sir John Mandeville
ISBN-10: 0812233433
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Travel & Transport
Topic: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Name: Writing East : the Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 1997
Subject: Medieval, Books & Reading, Europe / Medieval
Item Weight: 27.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Iain Macleod Higgins
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Series: The Middle Ages Ser.
Format: Hardcover
