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Invention Formosa, the empire of the Great Khan and Lilliput: can 18th century fiction be counterfactual?
Ein erfundenes Formosa, das Reich des Großkhans und Lilliput: können die Fiktionen des 18. Jahrhunderts kontrafaktisch sein?
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Abstract 'This paper proposes a new use for old descriptions of the foreign that from today's point of view cannot be considered sources of factual information. Instead of questioning how much of these reports is empirically verifiable, they are usable as counterparts to empirical scenarios in historical com... mehr
'This paper proposes a new use for old descriptions of the foreign that from today's point of view cannot be considered sources of factual information. Instead of questioning how much of these reports is empirically verifiable, they are usable as counterparts to empirical scenarios in historical comparisons, provided they can be qualified as counterfactual. There are two criteria they have to met to make this possible: They may not be too far away from the empirical reality, and they must be structurally compatible to modern scientific methodology, therefore descriptive and empirically orientated. This means that fictionality and counterfactuality are not mutually exclusive or incompatible, and old accounts can be used as counterfactuals. The material for demonstration is provided by analysing the descriptions Marco Polo and Mandeville gave of the Mongolian Empire, George Psalmanazar's Formosa, and Swift's Lilliput.' (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Literatur; Reise; Ostasien; Taiwan; Methodologie; Denken; 18. Jahrhundert; Asien; Geschichtsschreibung; Schriftsteller; Analyse; Vergleich
Klassifikation
allgemeine Geschichte
Forschungsarten der Sozialforschung
Methode
empirisch-qualitativ; empirisch; historisch
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2009
Seitenangabe
S. 215-234
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 34 (2009) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.34.2009.2.215-234
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)