The Idea of the Antipodes

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The Idea of the Antipodes
Author : Matthew Boyd Goldie
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Publisher : Routledge
Language : English
Release Date : 31 January 2010
ISBN : 9781135272180
Pages : 243 pages
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A study that uses critical theory to investigate the history of how people have thought about the antipodes - the places and people on the other side of the world - from ancient Greece to present-day literature and digital media.

The Idea of the Antipodes

A study that uses critical theory to investigate the history of how people have thought about the antipodes - the places and people on the other side of the world - from ancient Greece to present-day literature and digital media.

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The Idea of the Antipodes

This book will be the first study to focus exclusively on presentations of the antipodes. Taking into account maps, letters, book illustrations, travel writing, poetry, and drama, Goldie reveals that the history of the idea of the antipodes might be seen as different modes or discourses: mathematical and geographical in

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