The Noble Savage: Allegory of FreedomWilfrid Laurier University Press, 30.04.1990 - 182 Seiten Stelio Cro’s revealing work, arising from his more than half dozen previous books, considers the eighteenth-century Enlightenment in the context of the European experience with, and reaction to, the cultures of America’s original inhabitants. Taking into account Spanish, Italian, French, and English sources, the author describes how the building materials for Rousseau’s allegory of the Noble Savage came from the early Spanish chroniclers of the discovery and conquest of America, the Jesuit Relations of the Paraguay Missions (a Utopia in its own right), the Essais of Montaigne, Italian Humanism, Shakespeare’s Tempest, writers of Spain’s Golden Age, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, and the European philosophes. |
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... primitive man . Consistently he presents us with a picture of primitive man who communicates through a mythical language ( mutoli ) , or who has such fear of the gods that he propitiates them with human sacrifices . There is only one ...
... primitive poetry was the foundation of civilized society : the society of the heri which represented the only alternative to the barbarity of the common possession of women and things . Instead , in many passages of Peter Martyr and Las ...
... primitive man , but he tells us that that age is gone for ever . At every point we are confronted with the contrast between our corrupt society and the good examples of primitive men . It would seem that , given this assessment , the ...
Inhalt
The Roots of the Noble Savage | 1 |
The Return of Ulysses and the Spanish Utopia | 13 |
Chapter 2 | 57 |
Urheberrecht | |
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