Samuel Johnson’s Discursive Possession and A Voyage to Abyssinia
Samuel Johnson’s Discursive Possession and A Voyage to Abyssinia
This chapter describes Johnson’s experience of translating A Voyage to Abyssinia during a period of mental illness, which resulted in his discursive possession. The chapter analyzes how the multiple conflicting sources of the textwould have contributed to such.
Keywords: Ethiopian discourse, discursive possession, a Voyage to Abyssinia, Voyage historique d'Abissinie, Jerónimo Lobo, Joachim Le Grand
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