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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 Info. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 310 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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.
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Subject Literature, Medieval -- Arab influences.
Literature, Medieval.
Comparative literature -- Arabic and European.
Comparative literature.
Comparative literature -- European and Arabic.
Romance-language literature -- Arab influences.
Romance-language literature -- Arab influences.
Romance-language literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Akbari, Suzanne Conklin.
Mallette, Karla.
Added Title Rethinking the Arabic role in medieval literary history
Other Form: Print version: Sea of languages. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2013 9780802098689 (DLC) 2013363643 (OCoLC)824604933
ISBN 1442663391 (electronic book)
9781442663398 (electronic book)
9780802098689 (acid-free paper)
0802098681 (acid-free paper)