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Incipit 6 : Workshop de Estudos Medievais da Universidade do Porto, 2017
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Monstros e seres fantásticos na literatura de viaxes : un imaxinario fundador da imaxe do Oriente
Lorena Pazos Romero
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AbstractThe thesis that this article introduces tries to recreate the marvelous image of the Orient that spread throughout the Iberian Peninsula during the last centuries of the Middle Ages. In order to do this, we will study the monsters and fantastic creatures that appeared in travel literature that explored Asia. We will focus our attention on travel texts that circulated in the Iberian Peninsula from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. Thus, we will study the characteristics of monsters found in the selected travel texts in different regions of Asia and the places in which they are mentioned. In each region, there will first be an introduction to some possible older myths and then the monsters will be grouped according to their specific location in space, which could be real or imaginary. This way, we can see the topography of monsters created for each region, which will allow us to have a complete picture of the continent as well as each region within. Lastly, the ultimate objective is to analyze what kind of information about the East does this landscape of monsters derived from travel literature give us, and what defines this marvelous landscape: the differences between tales, tropes or the unique and exceptional details. In this manner, we will see how these devices give us information about the East, both about the feelings that are communicated about a territory (fear, fascination…) and clues that they can give us about the peoples of these places.
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