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讲的是 travel literature,两段不长。第一段将整体在一个时间段(具体忘了)travel literature很流行,大概分析了原因。记得有 虽然是基于fact写的,但是很多时候作者会加入一些fantasy的成分在里面。第二段具体讲在英国的travel literature的情况,有点绕没太搞明白到底是不是注重fact的成分。时间太紧了,考了3题,好像有主旨题,记不清了。期待考古
是原文吗?
记得一道细节题,看travel literature 【no doubt a symptom】(高亮)that... should spurred imperialism,这个高亮部分和后文是什么关系
我记得有一个选项是说衔接前后两句话的(第一句话,是说travel literature得到前所未有的发展,第三句话好像就是转折。however怎么怎么样。还有一个选项是为了后面展开论述做基础之类的。还有一个选项是minimize non-literacy的因素对其蓬勃发展的影响。还有就是说那个比喻illness。
Travel literature reached the height of its influence on Western culture in the period from sixteenth to the eighteenth century, with its largest ever share of the book market. This boundless desire of the public to enter vicariously into other regions of the world was no doubt a symptom of the mentality which called forth the West to world domination. This public was, however, rather indiscriminate in its reading habits. It approached travel literature with a mixture of genuine interest, a need for entertainment, and sceptical reserve, but without looking too intently for a factual basis to the information given. Indeed, its expectations were sometimes better served when facts were mingled with fantasy, as for example with colonial or missionary propaganda, or light reading, where one could identify with the hero and the setting. Travel literature reached the absolute summit of its popularity in England at the turn of the 17th century as a result of England’s isolation from other centres of civilization, its commercial and colonial ventures overseas, and also social and intellectual history. The English public which greedily devoured both true and fantastic books of travels had been educated by Puritanism to despise poetry and theatre as amoral pastimes, and to be interested only in reason, truth, and fact. But it would swallow poetry when it was presented in the guise of reason, truth, and fact. The early 18th century in England was a period when the borderline between poetry and knowledge was blurred. This has been referred to as the “retaliation of proscribed fantasy”.
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