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Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, to the "Islamist" terrorist. In Idols in the East, Suzanne Conklin Akbari explores the premodern background of some of the Orientalist types still pervasive in present-day depictions of Muslims-the irascible and irrational Arab, the religiously deviant Islamist-and about how these stereotypes developed over time. Idols in the East contributes to the recent surge of interest in European encounters with Islam and the Orient in the premodern world. Focusing on the medieval period, Akbari examines a broad range of texts including encyclopedias, maps, medical and astronomical treatises, chansons de geste, romances, and allegories to paint an unusually diverse portrait of medieval culture. Among the texts she considers are The Book of John Mandeville, The Song of Roland, Parzival, and Dante's Divine Comedy. From them she reveals how medieval writers and readers understood and explained the differences they saw between themselves and the Muslim other.Looking forward, Akbari also comes to terms with how these medieval conceptions fit with modern discussions of Orientalism, thus providing an important theoretical link to postcolonial and postimperial scholarship on later periods. Far reaching in its implications and balanced in its judgments, Idols in the East will be of great interest to not only scholars and students of the Middle Ages but also anyone interested in the roots of Orientalism and its tangled relationship to modern racism and anti-Semitism.
Christianity and other religions --- Islam --- Orientalism --- Islam in literature. --- East and West in literature. --- Orientalism in literature. --- Literature, Medieval --- 297*35 --- 297*35 Islam en het Westen --- Islam en het Westen --- East and West --- Islam. --- Relations --- Christianity. --- History --- History and criticism. --- Europe --- Islamic Empire --- Latin Orient --- East, Latin --- Latin East --- Orient, Latin --- Middle East --- Orient --- Latin Empire, 1204-1261 --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Arab countries --- Arab Empire --- Empire, Islamic --- Muslim Empire --- In literature. --- Islam dans la littérature --- Orient et Occident dans la littérature --- Orientalisme dans la littérature --- Orient latin dans la littérature --- Islam dans la littérature --- Orient et Occident dans la littérature --- Orientalisme dans la littérature --- Orient latin dans la littérature --- East and West in literature --- Islam in literature --- Orientalism in literature --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Relations&delete& --- Christianity --- History and criticism --- Christianisme --- Orientalisme --- Littérature médiévale --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- Empire islamique --- Orient latin
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"In Seeing through the Veil, Suzanne Conklin Akbari examines several late medieval allegories in the context of contemporary paradigm shifts in scientific and philosophical theories of vision." "Offering a new interdisciplinary, synthetic approach to late medieval intellectual history and to major works within the medieval literary canon, Seeing through the Veil will be an essential resource to the study of medieval literature and culture, as well as philosophy, history of art, and history of science."--Jacket.
Literature, Medieval --- Allegory. --- Optics in literature. --- Personification in literature --- Symbolism in literature --- History and criticism. --- Littérature médiévale --- Allégorie --- Optique dans la littérature --- Histoire et critique --- Thematology --- Old English literature --- Old French literature --- Italian literature --- Allegory --- Optics in literature --- History and criticism --- Sex discrimination against women --- Women college teachers --- DISCOUNT-C. --- Women as college teachers --- College teachers --- Women in higher education --- Women teachers --- Literature, Medieval - History and criticism --- Allegorie --- Italienisch. --- Mittelenglisch. --- Mittelfranzösisch.
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Literature, Medieval --- Comparative literature --- Littérature médiévale --- Littérature comparée --- Arab influences --- Arabic and European --- European and Arabic. --- Influence arabe --- Arabe et européenne --- Européenne et arabe --- Comparative litera. --- Arab influences. --- Littérature médiévale --- Littérature comparée --- Arabe et européenne --- Européenne et arabe
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"Drawing on Arabic, English, French, Irish, Latin and Spanish sources, the essays share a focus on the body's productive capacity - whether expressed through the flesh's materiality, or through its role in performing meaning. The collection is divided into four clusters. 'Foundations' traces the use of physical remnants of the body in the form of relics or memorial monuments that replicate the form of the body as foundational in communal structures; 'Performing the Body' focuses on the ways in which the individual body functions as the medium through which the social body is maintained; 'Bodily Rhetoric' explores the poetic linkage of body and meaning; and 'Material Bodies' engages with the processes of corporeal being, ranging from the energetic flow of humoural liquids to the decay of the flesh. Together, the essays provide new perspectives on the centrality of the medieval body and underscore the vitality of this rich field of study."--Dust jacket.
Human body --- Identity (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Community life --- Literature, Medieval --- Human body in literature. --- Human figure in art. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Social aspects --- History --- Symbolic aspects --- History and criticism. --- Body, Human --- Human body in art --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Personal identity --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Art --- Composition (Art) --- Figurative art --- Anatomy, Artistic --- Figure drawing --- Figure painting --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Human ecology --- Psychology --- Conformity --- Likes and dislikes --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Human body in literature --- Human figure in art --- History and criticism --- Europa. --- Europa --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Abendland --- Okzident --- Europäer
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"What do we do when we read? Reading can be an act of consumption or an act of creation. Our "work reading" overlaps with our "pleasure reading," and yet these two modes of reading engage with different parts of the self. It is sometimes passive, sometimes active, and can even be an embodied form. The contributors to this volume share their own histories of reading in order to reveal the shared pleasure that lies in this most solitary of acts - which is also, paradoxically, the act of most complete plenitude. Many of the contributors engage in academic writing, and several publish in other genres, including poetry and fiction; some contributors maintain an active online presence. All are engaged with reading's capacity to stimulate and excite as well as to frustrate and confuse. The synergies and tensions of online reading and print reading animate these thirteen contributions, generating a sense of shared community. Together, the authors open their libraries to us. This is how we read. Table of Contents // Suzanne Conklin Akbari / "Introduction: Practicing Reading, Reading Practice" Irina Dumitrescu / "Reading Lessons" Anna Wilson / "I Like Knowing What is Going to Happen" Suzanne Conklin Akbari / "Read It Out Loud" Jessica Hammer / "From When We Read" Lochin Brouillard / "De Vita Lochini, or Commentary on a Life of Reading" Chris Piuma / "How I Read" Stephanie Bahr / "How I Read, a History; or 'San Francisco Banking Contains No Trans Fats'" Alexandra Atiya / "Text to Speech" Jonathan Hsy / "Phantom Sounds" Kirsty Schut / "On Not Being a Voracious Reader" Kaitlin Heller / "Sleeping Under the Mountain" Jennifer Jordan / "Reading to Forget, Reading to Remember" Brantley Bryant / "Best Practice Tips and Strategies for Academic Reading to Maximize Your Time and Productivity" Kaitlin Heller / "Afterword: The Parlor Scene""--
Literary studies: general --- Books and reading. --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- reading --- writing --- libraries --- poetics --- memory --- university life --- literary studies
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"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 together some of the most influential scholars working in Muslim-Christian-Jewish cultural communications today to discuss the convergence of the literary, social, and economic histories of the medieval Mediterranean. This volume takes as a starting point María Rosa Menocal's groundbreaking work The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History, a major catalyst in the reconsideration of prevailing assumptions regarding the insularity of medieval European literature. Reframing ongoing debates within literary studies in dynamic new ways, A Sea of Languages will become a critical resource and reference point for a new generation of scholars and students on the intersection of Arabic and European literature."--
Literature, Medieval --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- Arab influences. --- Arabic and European. --- European and Arabic. --- History and criticism
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The comparative or connected study of localized intellectual traditions poses special challenges to the global turn in medieval studies. How can we enable conversations across language groups and intricate cultural formations, as well as disciplines? Practices of commentary offer a compelling opportunity: their visual layouts reveal assumptions about the relative status of text and gloss, while interpretive interlinear or marginal prompts capture the dynamic relationships among generations of teachers, students, and readers. The material traces of manuscript usage - from hastily scrawled marginal notes to vivid rubrication - illuminate the shared didactic and communicative practices developed within scholarly communities. By bringing together researchers working on specific cultures and discourses across Eurasia, this volume moves toward a global account of premodern commentary traditions.
Literature, Medieval --- History and criticism. --- Buddhist exegesis. --- Byzantine. --- Graeco-Roman. --- Ottoman. --- Sanskrit. --- Sino-Tibetan. --- Sunni. --- Criticism, Medieval.
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Few figures from history evoke such vivid Orientalist associations as Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer whose accounts of the "Far East" sparked literary and cultural imaginations. The essays in Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West challenge what many scholars perceived to be an opposition of "East" and "West" in Polo's writings. These writers argue that Marco Polo's experiences along the Silk Road should instead be considered a fertile interaction of cultural exchange. The volume begins with detailed studies of Marco Polo's narrative in its many medieval forms (including French, Italian, and Latin versions). They place the text in its material and generic contexts, and situate Marco Polo's account within the conventions of travel literature and manuscript illumination. Other essays consider the appropriation of Marco Polo's narrative in adaptations, translation, and cinematic art. The concluding section presents historiographic and poetic accounts of the place of Marco Polo in the context of a global world literature. By considering the production and reception of The Travels, this collection lays the groundwork for new histories of world literature written from the perspective of cultural, economic, and linguistic exchange, rather than conquest and conflict.
East and West. --- Travelers' writings --- Travel, Medieval. --- Geography, Medieval. --- Orient et Occident. --- Écrits de voyageurs --- Voyage --- Géographie médiévale. --- Geography --- Medieval geography --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Western --- Civilization, Oriental --- Occident and Orient --- Orient and Occident --- West and East --- Eastern question --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Histoire --- Asian influences --- Oriental influences --- Western influences --- Polo, Marco, --- Marco Polo --- Polo, Marco --- マルコ・ポーロ --- ポーロ, マルコ --- 馬可波羅 --- Travels of Marco Polo (Polo, Marco) --- Livres des merveilles du monde (Polo, Marco) --- Divisament du monde (Polo, Marco) --- Description of the world (Polo, Marco) --- Milione (Polo, Marco) --- Delle maravigliose cose del mondo (Polo, Marco) --- Ecrits de voyageurs --- Geographie medievale.
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