Marvelous Possessions is a study of the ways in which Europeans of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, in particular the New World.
In a series of innovative readings of travel narratives, judicial documents, and official reports, Stephen Greenblatt shows that the experience of the marvelous, central to both art and philosophy, was cunningly yoked by Columbus and others to the service of colonial appropriation. He argues that the traditional symbolic actions and legal rituals through which European sovereignty was asserted were strained to the breaking point by the unprecedented nature of the discovery of the New World. But the book also shows that the experience of the marvelous is not necessarily an agent of empire: in writers as different as Herodotus, Jean de Léry, and Montaigne—and notably in Mandeville's Travels, the most popular travel book of the Middle Ages—wonder is a sign of a remarkably tolerant recognition of cultural difference.
Marvelous Possession is not only a collection of the odd and exotic through which Stephen Greenblatt powerfully conveys a sense of the marvelous, but also a highly original extension of his thinking on a subject that has occupied him throughout his career. The book reaches back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the present to ask how it is possible, in a time of disorientation, hatred of the other, and possessiveness, to keep the capacity for wonder from being poisoned?
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1-85 a book on the most significant concept of the time of discovery - "wonder"
评分1-85 a book on the most significant concept of the time of discovery - "wonder"
评分use wonder and mediation to collapse the dichotomy of subject and object generated at the wake of early colonial history. 受de certeau影響深重，yet very eloquent，daston和park的書顯然受到greenblatt九十年代對wonder這個概念的分析的影響。
评分use wonder and mediation to collapse the dichotomy of subject and object generated at the wake of early colonial history. 受de certeau影響深重，yet very eloquent，daston和park的書顯然受到greenblatt九十年代對wonder這個概念的分析的影響。
评分use wonder and mediation to collapse the dichotomy of subject and object generated at the wake of early colonial history. 受de certeau影響深重，yet very eloquent，daston和park的書顯然受到greenblatt九十年代對wonder這個概念的分析的影響。
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