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"Idols in the East explores European encounters with Islam and the Orient in the premodern world, focusing on the medieval period. Zuzanne Conklin Akbari examines a broad range of texts including encyclopedias, maps, medical and astronomical treatises, chansons de geste, romances, and allegories to reveal how Christian medieval writers and readers understood and explained the differences they saw between themselves and Muslims. Looking forward, Akbari also addresses how these medieval conceptions inform modern depictions and stereotypes of Muslims, Islam, and "the Orient."--COVER.

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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"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 --- 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 --- Arabic and European.

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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