Early modern writers pursued several purposes in writing down their travel impressions, mostly pragmatic ones; only gradually did travelogues become a separate genre of memorabilia, which served for entertainment and edification, but also for self-expression. Based on a corpus of manuscripts and prints from the period 1520 to 1694, the essay analyses the author-reader constellation of these travelogues and the speaker and reference roles to determine the extent to which they can represent initial approaches to a development of the first-person narrative.
Balbiani, L., Er, wir oder ich? Frühneuzeitliche Reiseberichte auf dem Weg zur Autobiographie, <<CULTURA TEDESCA>>, 2020; 58 (1): 35-54 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/190485]
Er, wir oder ich? Frühneuzeitliche Reiseberichte auf dem Weg zur Autobiographie
Balbiani, Laura
2020
Abstract
Early modern writers pursued several purposes in writing down their travel impressions, mostly pragmatic ones; only gradually did travelogues become a separate genre of memorabilia, which served for entertainment and edification, but also for self-expression. Based on a corpus of manuscripts and prints from the period 1520 to 1694, the essay analyses the author-reader constellation of these travelogues and the speaker and reference roles to determine the extent to which they can represent initial approaches to a development of the first-person narrative.
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