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T1  - Needless Lies? : Merchant Letters and Knowledge of Japan in Early Seventeenth-Century England 
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UR  - URN:NBN:fi-fe201308214398; http://hdl.handle.net/10138/40243 
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A1  - Kaislaniemi, Samuli 
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PB  - Helsingfors universitet 
Y1  - 2005 
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AB  - This MA thesis looks at Early Modern English merchant letters as an atypical subgenre of travel literature, and as an underused source for European perceptions of the Other. 

The thesis approaches letters by applying the three-dimensional model developed for discourse analysis by Norman Fairclough. In this study, the letters are placed in their historical, cultural and textual contexts. I first analyse the letters in relation to contemporary travel literature and ethnography, and give an acco... 
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KW  - English philology; Englantilainen filologia; Engelsk filologi 
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