In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the thesis of the wandering isle, which already held sway in classical antiquity, gains further grounds because of the infancy of new maritime knowledge, of deliberate state politics and cartographic choices, and of the failed quest for the Non Trubada – an island of pure language, without a real place.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-8124-3035-0
EAN:9782812430350
ISSN: 1279-8428
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-3037-4
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 11-01-2014
Language: French
Keyword: Littérature des voyages, îles errantes, navigations anciennes, îles imaginaires, canal du Mozambique, découvreurs