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Revista de Historia, 2016 The texts written by European and North American travelers -travelogues, letters, reports, etc.- have played a major role in the production of Central American otherness and have had its repercussions in Central American literatures.
Werner Mackenbach
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An analysis of the reflection of why and how the dimensions and aspects of Shah Abbas's political power are applied in the narratives of Safavid travelogue writers [PDF]
پژوهشهای تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2019 Safavid period travel books, along with the reflection of various dimensions and aspects of the social-political life of Iran in the Safavid era, give a significant and distinct narrative of how to exercise political power during Shah Abbas's period ...
مجتبی ذهابی +2 more
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The Image of Bratislava in Czech Travelogues of the Interwar Period [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2021 The paper focuses on the literary representations of Bratislava in Czech travelogues and formulates various narratives of those depictions of the city that are related to the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918.
Jana Pátková
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Constructing a Text, Creating an Image: The Case of Johannes Barbarus
Interlitteraria, 2018 The Estonian poet, physician and politician Johannes Vares-Barbarus (1890–1946) is a contradictory figure in Estonian history and culture. He was a well-known and acknowledged doctor named Vares, but also a poet named Barbarus who was notable for his ...
Anneli Kõvamees
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Analysis of Ardabil’s Business and Communication Routes in Survival and Prosperity Based on Historical Texts and Archaeological Data [PDF]
Anastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and Art, 2020 In the early Islamic centuries, Ardabil is considered to be the oldest and the first city in the Azerbaijani province due to its regional biodiversity in geographical texts. The present study investigates the communication routes to the peripheral points
Mehdi Hosseini Nia +3 more
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«Deh, non opinate, o Signora, così spregevolmente di noi»: l’Italia illustrata dalle italiane
Altrelettere, 2012 This article discusses the symbolic values assigned to Italian women writers in the historical age that precedes national unification. At the beginning of 19th century, aiming at its Risorgimento, Italy shaped its own identity.
Tatiana Crivelli
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Kızılelma Viyana, bir ümidin sönüsü
Cahiers Balkaniques, 2013 Before the publication of Richard Kreutel’s important work on the Vienna account in Volume 7 of the Seyahatnâme it was thought that Evliyâ Çelebi was unaware of the second siege of Vienna (1683).
Semih Tezcan
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ViaticaIn French travelogues taking place in France, ecopoetics regularly appears as a significant, but not necessarily preeminent part of the travel writing.
Jean-Baptiste Bernard
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La langue européenne nommée Tâlyân chez Evliyâ Çelebi et ailleurs
Cahiers Balkaniques, 2013 What does mean the word Tâlyân in Evliyâ? Geographical and historical inaccuracies leave us with a few hesitations, italian, latin, slovenian? And does the word Lâtîn indicate greek, any slavic language, the church slavonic or/and latin?
Claudia Römer
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
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