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Title

A sea of languages : rethinking the Arabic role in medieval literary history / edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Karla Mallette.

Publication

• Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
• ©2013

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Additional Authors

• Akbari, Suzanne Conklin
• Mallette, Karla

Description

x, 310 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"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."--

Subject

• Literature, Medieval > Arab influences
• Comparative literature > Arabic and European
• Comparative literature > European and Arabic
• Littérature médiévale > Influence arabe
• Littérature comparée > Arabe et européenne
• Littérature comparée > Européenne et arabe
• Arabisch
• Literatur
• Rezeption
• Mittelmeerraum
• Europa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: The Persistence of Philology : Language and Connectivity in the Mediterranean / Suzanne Conklin Akbari -- Philology in the Mediterranean. Beyond Philology : Cross-Cultural Engagement in Literary History and Beyond / Sharon Kinoshita -- Linguistic Difference, the Philology of Romance, and the Romance of Philology / Simon Gaunt -- Forging New Paradigms : Towards a History of Islamo-Christian Civilization / John Tolan -- Reflections on Muslim Hebraism : Codex Vindobonensis Palatinus and al-Biqa'i / Walid A. Saleh -- 'Mixing the East with the West' : Cosmopolitan Philology in Richard Burton's Translations from Camões / Paulo Lemos Horta -- Reading Backward : The Thousand and One Nights and Philological Practice / Karla Mallette -- The cosmopolitan frontier : Andalusi case studies. Andalusi 'Exceptionalism' / Ross Brann -- The Convivencia Wars : Decoding Historiography's Polemic with Philology / Ryan Szpiech -- 'In One of My Body's Gardens' : Hearts in Transformation in Late Medieval Iberian Passion Devotions / Cynthia Robinson -- Contacts, Influences, and Hybridization : Rethinking the History of Medieval Music in the Iberian Peninsula / Dwight Reynolds -- Sicilian Poets in Seville : Literary Affinities across Political Boundaries / William Granara -- Efer ve-Dinah between Hebrew and Romance / David Wacks -- The Shadow of Islam in Cervantes' 'l Licenciado Vidriera' / Leyla Rouhi -- 'The Finest Flowering' : Poetry, History, and Medieval Spain in the Twenty-First Century / María Rosa Menocal -- Boustrophedon : Toward a Literary Theory of the Mediterranean / Karla Mallette.

ISBN

• 9780802098689
• 0802098681

LCCN

2013363643

OCLC

• 824604933
• SCSB-11471176

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library