A sea of languages : rethinking the Arabic role in medieval literary history

A sea of languages : rethinking the Arabic role in medieval literary history /

"Medieval European literature was once thought to have been isolationist in its nature, but recent scholarship has revealed the ways in which Spanish and Italian authors--including Cervantes and Marco Polo--were influenced by Arabic poetry, music, and philosophy. A Sea of Languages brings toget...

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Other Authors: Akbari, Suzanne Conklin (Editor), Mallette, Karla (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Literature, Medieval > Arab influences.
Comparative literature > Arabic and European.
Comparative literature > European and Arabic.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction : the persistence of philology : language and connectivity in the Mediterranean / Suzanne Conklin Akbari
  • 2. Beyond philology : cross-cultural engagement in literary history and beyond / Sharon Kinoshita
  • 3. Linguistic difference, the philology of romance, and the romance of philology / Simon Gaunt
  • 4. Forging new paradigms : towards a history of Islamo-Christian civilization / John Tolan
  • 5. Reflections on Muslim Hebraism : Codex Vindobonensis Palatinus and al-Biqaʻi / Walid A. Saleh
  • 6. "Mixing the east with the west" : cosmopolitan philology in Richard Burton's Translations from Camões / Paulo Lemos Horta
  • 7. Reading backward : the 1001 Nights and philological practice / Karla Mallette
  • 8. Andalusi "exceptionalism" / Ross Brann
  • 9. The Convivencia Wars : decoding historiography's polemic with philology / Ryan Szpiech
  • 10. "In one of my body's gardens" : hearts in transformation in late Medieval Iberian passion devotions / Cynthia Robinson
  • 11. Arab musical influence on medieval Europe : a reassessment / Dwight Reynolds
  • 12. Sicilian poets in Seville : literary affinities across political boundaries / William Granara
  • 13. Vidal Benvenist's Efer ve-Dinah between Hebrew and romance / David Wacks
  • 14. The shadow of Islam in Cervantes's "El Licenciado Vidriera" / Leyla Rouhi
  • 15. "The finest flowering" : poetry, history, and medieval Spain in the twenty-first century / María Rosa Menocal
  • 16. Boustrophedon : toward a literary theory of the Mediterranean / Karla Mallette.

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