10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHOROGRAPHIES»
Discover the use of
chorographies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
chorographies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Politics of Memory: The Writing of Partition in the ...
CHaPter seVen Centre anD PerIPHerY: HollanD, ZeelanD, gelDerlanD, DrentHe
anD FlanDers Urban chorographies in the low Countries were complemented by
descriptions of regions and provinces, often written by the same men.
2
Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England
Chorographies are repositories of proper names. Saxton's wall-map of 1583
contains some four thousand of them (fig. 11). His atlas may have as many as
another thousand.36 And to these thousands, the discursive descriptions add
several ...
3
Early Modern Drama and the Eastern European Elsewhere: ...
3. Early. Modern. Chorographies. of. Eastern. European. Regions. THE ENGLISH
WORD CHOROGRAPHY TAKES ITS MEANING FROM ITS GREEK origin, just as
its Latin form, chorographia, did for the Romans. In Greek technical literature ...
Monica Matei-Chesnoiu, 2009
4
Death and the Migrant: Bodies, Borders and Care
chorographies. Two central themes that recur throughout the book are those of
sensuality and space-time, where I see diasporic forces at work in the scattering
and redistribution of the senses. I am drawing upon and adapting the insights of ...
5
Images of Matter: Essays on British Literature of the Middle ...
The most famous of these chorographic works is William Camden's Britannia (
1586). Its thorough and deeply learned antiquarian approach sets the tone for
many later chorographies, but hardly exhausts the possibilities of this vibrant
genre.
6
The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius ...
Rather than a work of history, the Batavia should be called a 'chorography',
comparable to the many fifteenth- and sixteenth-century antiquarian
chorographies like Flavio Biondo's Italia Illustrata (1453), Conrad Celtis'
Germania project (1453), ...
7
Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern ...
Chorographies, topographical-historical descriptions, formed an essential part of
this new 'patriotic' scripture. Chorographies witnessed a steep rise in popularity
and production in the Dutch Republic during the seventeenth century.
Judith Pollmann, Andrew Paul Spicer, 2007
8
Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England
In both Stow's Survey and The Alchemist, strategically composed narratives like
the county chorographies attached to the country house failed to cohere; they
were not easily deduced from buildings that had, themselves, been so visibly and
...
9
Renaissance Drama 34: Media, Technology, and Performance
Inoculating. the. Old. Stock: Shakespearean. Chorographies. BARBARA.
HODGDON. Shakespeare is a model of the theatre that contains Brecht and
Beckett, but goes beyond both. Our need in the post-Brecht theatre is to find a
way forwards, ...
Jeffrey Masten, Wendy Wall, W. B. Worthen, 2006
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Agents of Transculturation: Border-Crossers, Mediators, ...
Pirate. Science,. Coastal. Knowledge: Chorographies. of. the. American. Isthmus.
in. the. Late. Seventeenth. Century1. ALEXANDRA GANSER Introduction In the
late seventeenth century, the American isthmus – its Caribbean as well as ...
Sebastian Jobs, Gesa Mackenthun, 2013
