Questions of Inscription and Epistemology in British Travelers' Accounts of Early Nineteenth-Century South America
Questions of Inscription and Epistemology in British Travelers' Accounts of Early Nineteenth-Century South America
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英国旅行者对十九世纪早期南美洲的记述中的铭文和认识论问题
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10.1080/00045608.2011.577359
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2011
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Keighren I
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本文探讨了旅行者叙事中的真实与信任问题。在对旅行写作和印刷旅行叙事在地理调查中的地位进行回顾之后，我们讨论了铭文和可信度问题是如何内在于叙事从手稿开始到印刷形式的材料和认识转变的。特别注意的是十九世纪初由伦敦出版商约翰·默里（John Murray）出版的南美旅行故事。通过对旅行写作的具体实践的质疑，本文探讨了默里的作者试图在他们的生活经历和这些经历的文本表征之间建立对应关系的方式。本文着重探讨旅行者对真理的主张的认识论基础，以及他们如何以不同的方式评价直接观察的重要性，以及第三方在旅行记录中的口头和文本证词，这些旅行记录试图向阅读公众揭示一个新独立的南美洲。在对作者、出版商和读者之间复杂联系的考察中，这部作品对那些对书写和地理学中印刷文字之间的关系感兴趣的学者有着启示作用。
This article examines the problems of truth and of trust in travelers’ narratives. Following a review of work on travel writing and the place of printed travel narratives in the making of geographical enquiry, we discuss how issues of inscription and credibility are intrinsic to the material and epistemic transformation of narratives from their manuscript beginnings to their printed form. Particular attention is paid to the narratives of travel in early nineteenth-century South America issued by the London publisher John Murray. By interrogating the embodied practices of travel writing, this article investigates the ways in which Murray's authors sought to establish a correspondence between their lived experiences and the textual representations of those experiences. The article focuses on the epistemological bases to travelers’ claims to truth and how they evaluated differently the significance of direct observation and the oral and textual testimony of third parties in the production of travel accounts that sought to reveal a newly independent South America to the reading public. In its examination of the complex connections linking author, publisher, and audience, the work has implications for scholars interested in the relationship between writing and the printed word in geography.