The Invention of the Eyewitness: Witnessing and Testimony in Early Modern FranceIn an examination of eyewitness travel writing in thirteenth- through sixteenth-century France, Andrea Frisch studies the figure of the witness at a historical juncture and in a cultural context in which that figure is generally thought to have begun to assume a recognizably modern form and function. Whereas most accounts of early modern travel literature tend to read modern presuppositions about witnessing and testimony back into the material, Frisch approaches the early modern witness in terms of the cultural legacy of the Middle Ages. Through primary readings in law and theology, Frisch documents the tension between the ethical witness (the characteristic witness of premodernity) and the epistemic witness (the modern witness) and explores the impact of that tension on the figure of the witness in pre- and early modern French-language travel literature. |
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... CHAPTER ONE : THE WITNESS AND THE JUDGE 9 11 21 CHAPTER TWO : ETHOS 41 CHAPTER THREE : EXPERIENCE 76 CHAPTER FOUR : THE FIRST PERSON 117 CHAPTER FIVE : PRESENCE 141 EPILOGUE : A RETURN TO DIALOGUE 181 BIBLIOGRAPHY 188 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...
... CHAPTER ONE : THE WITNESS AND THE JUDGE 9 11 21 CHAPTER TWO : ETHOS 41 CHAPTER THREE : EXPERIENCE 76 CHAPTER FOUR : THE FIRST PERSON 117 CHAPTER FIVE : PRESENCE 141 EPILOGUE : A RETURN TO DIALOGUE 181 BIBLIOGRAPHY 188 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...
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... chapter seven- teen , where we find him walking down the streets of Paris with Pantagruel's friend , the trickster Panurge . As an epic narrator de- fined by his capacity to know the story he is telling , Alcofribas has no trouble in ...
... chapter seven- teen , where we find him walking down the streets of Paris with Pantagruel's friend , the trickster Panurge . As an epic narrator de- fined by his capacity to know the story he is telling , Alcofribas has no trouble in ...
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... chapters and brings about the final resolution toward which the entire book has moved . " At this point in the narrative , however , Pantagruel has won an important battle , but not the war . At the beginning of chapter thir- ty - one ...
... chapters and brings about the final resolution toward which the entire book has moved . " At this point in the narrative , however , Pantagruel has won an important battle , but not the war . At the beginning of chapter thir- ty - one ...
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