ENGL 2P21 Lecture 2: Lecture 2.docx
13 Mar 2014
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How do perspectives shape narrative: surinam people would not describe these slaves as innocent, oroonoko and imoinda both lie constructive narrative. Founding of the royal society for improving of natural knowledge (1662; received. Philosophical transactions (scientific; holistic understanding of how bodies of knowledge mingled together) Division between science and humanities is artificial. Society offered guidelines to travelers of how they should report their travels. Attempt to standardize things and impose a rational design (age of reason: elevation of rational impulse and belief that by developing human development of thinking, society can improve) The rise of traveler literature reflects concerns of education: reading=educating you about history, science, ect: didactic function of texts. Author is not supposed to impose judgements (moral); virtually impossible to do so without adding bias. How what we think of as cultural norms, how are these defined; travel writing: europe is actively colonizing other parts of the world, did not only bring intellectual knowledge; also brought back merchandise.
