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Worldmaking: Inventing modern geographies in Mandeville, More, and the world map (John Mandeville, Thomas More).

机译:世界创造:在曼德维尔(Mandeville),莫尔(More)和世界地图上发明现代地理区域(约翰·曼德维尔(John Mandeville),托马斯·莫尔(Thomas More))。

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This thesis investigates medieval and early modern European cartography and historiography and how Europe was "moved" from the periphery to the centre in representations of the world. Using Immanuel Wallerstein's world-system model and Dusselian theory, I perform comparative close readings of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Thomas More's Utopia, and a number of medieval and early modern world maps in order to develop a genealogy of European representations of the early modern world and Europe's placement within that world. In these texts the descriptions of Elsewhere, Cathay and Utopia define the discursive Eastern and Western limits of the European conception of the world. Elsewhere acts as a projection of European desire that gets mapped onto geographical space(s). The conclusion of the thesis is that Europe began to represent itself at the centre of the world at a time when it was materially still only a peripheral part of the world-system. It was the conquest and colonization of the Americas in the sixteenth century that moved Europe economically to the centre of the modern world-system. The invented central position of Europe, on the world map and within world history, was created after 1492, but at a time when the European conquests had scarcely begun. A key feature of that invention were representations in which literature was crucially implicated. The representative central position of Europe in early modern texts of various kinds was part of an early modern discursive system used to justify the conquest and colonization of the Americas.
机译:本文研究了中世纪和近代早期的欧洲制图学和史学,以及欧洲如何从外围“移动”到世界的中心。我使用伊曼纽尔·沃勒斯坦(Immanuel Wallerstein)的世界体系模型和杜塞尔理论,对约翰·曼德维尔爵士游记,托马斯·莫尔(Thomas More)的《乌托邦》以及许多中世纪和早期的现代世界地图进行了比较近距离的阅读,以期建立起欧洲早期代表的谱系。现代世界和欧洲在该世界中的位置。在这些文本中,对“其他地方”,“国泰航空”和“乌托邦”的描述定义了欧洲对世界概念的论述性东方和西方界限。在其他地方,则反映了欧洲需求,并将其映射到地理空间中。论文的结论是,在欧洲实际上仍然只是世界体系外围部分的时候,欧洲开始在世界中心代表自己。正是在16世纪美洲人的征服和殖民统治下,欧洲经济上转移到了现代世界体系的中心。欧洲在世界地图上和世界历史内的发明中心地位是在1492年后建立的,但在那时欧洲征服才刚刚开始。该发明的关键特征是其中涉及文献的表述。欧洲在各种早期现代文献中的代表地位是早期现代话语系统的一部分,用于证明美洲的征服和殖民化。

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  • 作者

    Lester, Gordon William.;

  • 作者单位

    University of Guelph (Canada).;

  • 授予单位 University of Guelph (Canada).;
  • 学科 Literature Comparative.; Literature English.
  • 学位 M.A.
  • 年度 2003
  • 页码 123 p.
  • 总页数 123
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 文学理论;
  • 关键词

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