Reiseberichte als Zeitdokumente: Reisen in polnische Gebiete zur Zeit des Ersten Weltkriegs

• Authors: Izabela A. Dahl

Title variants

EN

Travel reports as contemporary documents: travels into Polish territories during WWI

Abstracts

EN

The communicative turn in historiography has extended source criticism within historical studies by examining sources as products of human action. This article presents some source critical considerations regarding travel reports as documents of their time, and reviews their narrative perspective taking point of departure in theoretical approaches from literary studies. The overriding question here is how and to what extent the supposed and simultaneously strenuous objectivity of the historical sources is provided in three selected international travel reports written by travellers, observers and intellectuals, who visited Poland during World War I.

Keywords

EN

historical methodology; critical source analysis; construction of objectivity; travel experience as historical source; Central Europe during the Great War

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Historie. Jahrbuch des Zentrums für Historische Forschung Berlin der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 13
• Pages: 117-133

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Izabela A. Dahl

Identifiers

DOI

10.24425/historie.2020.133253

Biblioteka Nauki

56077589