عنوان

Reading Word And Image: Representations Of Safavid Persia In The Maps And Frontispieces Of Adam Olearius (Ca. 1650)

Number

42568

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

eng

Title Proper

Reading Word And Image: Representations Of Safavid Persia In The Maps And Frontispieces Of Adam Olearius (Ca. 1650)

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

;advisor: Judith Ryan

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, Massachusetts

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

: 2001

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

‭XVII, 279p.‬

Other Physical Details

: Ill, Map.

Text of Note

UMI Microform 3011325

Text of Note

Bibliography

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D

Discipline of degree

, Comparative Literature

Body granting the degree

, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, Massachusetts

Text of Note

This dissertation examines how aspects of Safavid Persia are portrayed in the work of Adam Olearius, the German Baroque scholar who accompanied an economic expedition sent by the small northern German duchy of Holstein-Gottorf to Persia from 1635-39. Olearius's early modern travel account, the Vermehrte Newe Beschreibung der Muscowitischen und Persischen Rejse (1656), is a scholarly protoethnography, containing information on geography, biology, linguistics, history and natural history. His work both betrays stereotypical, orientalist views of Persia, and seeks to repudiate European prejudices concerning the Orient. This analysis investigates the visual and discursive nexus in his depiction of the other, namely how word and image interact in his representation of the land and its customs. In particular, the author examines Olearius's travel account and translation of Persian poetry, and confront them with his engravings, frontispieces and maps.

Iran - Description And Travels - 14th. Century - Dissertation

Oleariu, Adam, 1603- 1671 .- Journies - Iran - Dissertation

اولئاریوس، آدام، ۳۰۶۱- ۱۷۶۱ .- سفرها -ایران - پایان نامه ها

Brancaforte, Elio Christoph, برانکافورت، الیوکریستف

Burgard, Peter, Supervisor

Ryan, Judith, Consultor

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