Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne - Hardcover

Lestringant, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745616976 ISBN 13: 9780745616971

Verlag: Polity Press, 1997

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"Frank Lestringant's Cannibals is a magisterial, wide-ranging, and wonderfully readable exploration of one of the great Western obsessions. With a blend of horror, astonishment, and half-suppressed admiration, European travellers, philosophers, theologians, missionaries and artists have argued for centuries about the significance of cannibalism. Lestringant's extraordinary erudition enables him to map an immensely complex territory. His book is a feast!" Professor Stephen Greenblatt "A fascinating account of European cannibalism." The Bookseller "This is a learned and highly original book. Its virtues lie in its details, in the dazzling series of connections it makes between different aspects of cultural history - literary, theological, economic and artistic. Dare one say, in the words of the Prayer Book, that there is much here to "read, learn, and inwardly digest"?" The Sunday Telegraph "Excellent ... It takes a freshly informed look at the question of the American Indian, mainly through French rather than Spanish or British witnesses with whom Anglo-American scholars are more familiar." Claude Rawson, The Times Literary Supplement

Reseña del editor:

Mapping the origins and evolution of the word 'cannibal', Lestringant describes the symbolic uses of cannibalism by authors, political theorists and theologians. In a wide-ranging discussion he surveys the myth and the reality of the cannibal, and explores the deployment of the image in European literature and legend.

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• Verlag: Polity Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0745616976
• ISBN 13: 9780745616971
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256