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Trans - Rhenic Europe on the mental map of the 17th century English traveller
Radiměřská, Božena ; Klusáková, Luďa (advisor) ; Křížová, Markéta (referee)
First of all, the thesis "Trans-Rhenic Europe on the Mental Map of the Seventeenth Century English Traveller" dealt with the problem of the other European identity as reflected in the English travel writing of the seventeenth century. The crucial questions were if any coherent whole was distinguished on the mental map of the 17th century English traveller in the area of "Trans-Rhenic Europe", and what could be the uniting characteristics in cultural terms. By "Trans-Rhenic Europe", the geographical area delimited by rivers Rhine and Dnieper from West and East, by Baltic from North, and Turkish border from South was meant.
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"Eastern Europe" in the Mental Map of an English Traveller from the 16th to the 18th Century
Radiměřská, Božena ; Klusáková, Luďa (advisor) ; Kubeš, Jiří (referee) ; Křížová, Markéta (referee)
"Eastern Europe" in the Mental Map of an English Traveller from the 16th to the 18th Century Abstract The thesis aims to interpret the early modern English/British travel writings about (Central) Eastern Europe. It results in the reconstruction of mental maps of the selected travellers with regard to a typology (merchants, professionals, intellectuals, clergymen, and women). The special attention is paid to the images of marginality, such as inconvenience and danger, ignorance and backwardness, exaggeration and pomp, former splendour and present lamentation, pleasant and unpleasant landscape. The primary sources comprise a selection of fifteen travel writings which are read and interpreted with respect to the development of the genre and to the broader cultural and historical context. The covering concept is a mental map conceived as an imaginary representation of space and as a tool for cultural orientation and self-identification. The reconstruction of the mental maps is performed in four steps. Firstly, by defining the subject (a traveller) within the typology. Secondly, the landmarks (centres) in the mental maps are reconstructed. Thirdly, the images of marginality are presented. Finally, the mental maps are concluded. Methodologically, the thesis is based on the interpretation and language analysis of...
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Trans - Rhenic Europe on the mental map of the 17th century English traveller
Radiměřská, Božena ; Klusáková, Luďa (advisor) ; Křížová, Markéta (referee)
First of all, the thesis "Trans-Rhenic Europe on the Mental Map of the Seventeenth Century English Traveller" dealt with the problem of the other European identity as reflected in the English travel writing of the seventeenth century. The crucial questions were if any coherent whole was distinguished on the mental map of the 17th century English traveller in the area of "Trans-Rhenic Europe", and what could be the uniting characteristics in cultural terms. By "Trans-Rhenic Europe", the geographical area delimited by rivers Rhine and Dnieper from West and East, by Baltic from North, and Turkish border from South was meant.
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