Visions of Persia

Informationen zum Autor Elio Brancaforte is Assistant Professor of German at Tulane University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Olearius introduced Persian culture to the German-speaking public; his appraisal of Persian customs prepares the way for German Romanticism’s infatuation with Persian poetry.

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• Authors: Elio Brancaforte, Elio (Assistant of German Brancaforte, Elio (Assistant Professor of German Brancaforte, Elio Christoph Brancaforte
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2004
• EAN: 9780674012547
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01254-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature; Harvard Studies in Comparative; Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature; Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature (HUP)
• Subject: Non-fiction book