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  • Narrating and mapping Russia: From Terra Incognita to a charted space on the road to Cathay

    Author(s):
    George Prokhorov (see profile) , Sergey Saveliev
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    CLCS European Regions, GS Travel Writing, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, LLC Russian and Eurasian, Narrative theory and Narratology
    Subject(s):
    Travel writing, International relations, English literature--Old English, Russian literature, Comparative literature--Russian and English, Creative nonfiction, Seventeenth century, Narration (Rhetoric), Diplomatic history
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    travelogue, Travel narratives, Anglo-Russian literary relations, Nonfiction prose, 17th century, Narrative, Adaptation
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/ek4q-en64
    Abstract:
    In the 16th century most of Russia is still a terra incognita with a highly dubious and mostly mythologized geography, anthropology, and sociology. In this article we look at some texts of the Early Modern period – Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), Peter Mundy’s Travel Writings of 1640–1641, and The Voiages and Travels of John Struys (1676–1683) – and try to uncover the transformation of the obscure country into a more or less charted space, filled with narratives of adventures and travels in an enigmatic land on the verge of Europe, where exotic cultures are drawn together in a flamboyant mix. It is travel narrative that actually charts the territory and provides an explanation from which stems a partial understanding, physical and cultural, of the “Land of the Unpredictable.”
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1515/fns-2018-0023
    Publisher:
    Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    Pub. Date:
    2018-11-28
    Journal:
    Frontiers of Narrative Studies
    Volume:
    4
    Issue:
    2
    Page Range:
    277 - 290
    ISSN:
    2509-4890,2509-4882
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    5 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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