Nineteenth And Twentieth Century Readings Of The Medieval Orient
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Author |
: Liliana Sikorska |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2021-11-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501513367 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501513362 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient by : Liliana Sikorska
Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the European Middle Ages, the first part of the book discusses the troubled legacy of the encounters between the East and the West and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands in the liminal space between history and fiction. Drawing on the nineteenth-century models, the second part of the book looks at fictional and non-fictional works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century which re-established the "Oriental obsession," stimulating dread and resentment, and even more strongly setting the Civilized West against the Barbaric East. Here medieval metaphorical enemies of Mankind – the World, the Flesh and the Devil – reappear in different contexts: the world of immigration, of white women desiring Muslim men, and the present-day "freedom fighters."
Author |
: Liliana Sikorska |
Publisher |
: Medieval Institute Publications |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1501517910 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781501517914 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Readings of the Medieval Orient by : Liliana Sikorska
Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. The book discusses that troubled legacy drawing on the discourses on Muslims originating in the European Middle Ages, a
Author |
: Ryszard Bartnik |
Publisher |
: V&R Unipress |
Total Pages |
: 219 |
Release |
: 2023-12-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783847016571 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3847016571 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reimagined Communities by : Ryszard Bartnik
These contributions offer fundamental insights into how literary works address and reconceptualize issues of nationalism, groupism, belonging and denationalization in selected European contexts. Various critical perspectives are employed here to highlight modern social and political processes as registered and, to a certain extent, also fashioned by contemporary literary discourses. 'Reimagined communities' emerge from literary redescriptions of existing or imaginary sociopolitical configurations in several European states or regions. All the contributions share a heightened sensitivity to the individual as enmeshed in oppressive geopolitical circumstances. Thereby, literary expressions of how individuality is constrained by social pressures may offer inspiring blueprints for emancipation.
Author |
: Carol Falvo Heffernan |
Publisher |
: DS Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 182 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0859917959 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780859917957 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Orient in Chaucer and Medieval Romance by : Carol Falvo Heffernan
A study of romance and the Orient in Chaucer and in anonymous popular metrical romances. The idea of the Orient is a major motif in Chaucer and medieval romance, and this new study reveals much about its use and significance, setting the literature in its historical context and thereby offering fresh new readings of anumber of texts. The author begins by looking at Chaucer's and Gower's treatment of the legend of Constance, as told by the Man of Law, demonstrating that Chaucer's addition of a pattern of mercantile details highlights the commercial context of the eastern Mediterranean in which the heroine is placed; she goes on to show how Chaucer's portraits of Cleopatra and Dido from the Legend of Good Women, read against parallel texts, especially in Boccaccio, reveal them to be loci of medieval orientalism. She then examines Chaucer's inventive handling of details taken from Eastern sources and analogues in the Squire's Tale, showing how he shapes them into the western form ofinterlace. The author concludes by looking at two romances, Floris and Blauncheflur and Le Bone Florence of Rome; she argues that elements in Floris of sibling incest are legitimised into a quest for the beloved, and demonstrates that Le Bone Florence be related to analogous oriental tales about heroic women who remain steadfast in virtue against persecution and adversity. Professor CAROL F. HEFFERNAN teaches in the Department ofEnglish, Rutgers University.
Author |
: Pallavi Pandit Laisram |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2014-07-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317809302 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317809300 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Viewing the Islamic Orient by : Pallavi Pandit Laisram
The Islamic Orient studies the travel accounts of four British travelers during the nineteenth century. Through a critical analysis of these works, the author examines and questions Edward Said’s concept of "Orientalism" and "Orientalist" discourse: his argument that the orientalist view had such a strong influence on westerners that they invariably perceived the orient through the lens of orientalism. On the contrary, the author argues, no single factor had an overwhelming influence on them. She shows that westerners often struggled with their own conceptions of the orient, and being away for long periods from their homelands, were in fact able to stand between cultures and view them both as insiders and outsiders. The literary devices used to examine these writings are structure, characterization, satire, landscape description, and word choice, as also the social and political milieu of the writers. The major influences in the author’s analysis are Said, Foucault, Abdel-Malek and Marie Louise Pratt.
Author |
: David Weir |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1613760019 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781613760017 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Orient by : David Weir
Author |
: James A. Diamond |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 345 |
Release |
: 2012-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004234062 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004234063 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought by : James A. Diamond
How does the “medieval” function as a bearer of Jewish identity in a changing secular world? Each chapter in Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought addresses a different Jewish return to the medieval by using a language of renewal.
Author |
: Cardinal Goodwin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 120 |
Release |
: 1925 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:$B47863 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Syllabus of History I A-B by : Cardinal Goodwin
Author |
: University of Cambridge |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 1060 |
Release |
: 2009-10-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521137454 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521137454 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge 2009 by : University of Cambridge
The 2009-10 volume of the formal governing regulations of the University of Cambridge, annually updated.
Author |
: P E. CAQUET |
Publisher |
: Palgrave MacMillan |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2018-10-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3319816772 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783319816777 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Orient, the Liberal Movement, and the Eastern Crisis of 1839-41 by : P E. CAQUET