A sea of languages :  rethinking the Arabic role in medieval literary history / 
 Rethinking the Arabic role in medieval literary history 
edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Karla Mallette. 
 - Toronto ;  Buffalo ;  London :  University of Toronto Press,  (c)2013. 
 - 1 online resource (x, 310 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>1. Introduction : the persistence of philology : language and connectivity in the Mediterranean /  2. Beyond philology : cross-cultural engagement in literary history and beyond /  3. Linguistic difference, the philology of romance, and the romance of philology /  4. Forging new paradigms : towards a history of Islamo-Christian civilization /  5. Reflections on Muslim Hebraism : Codex Vindobonensis Palatinus and al-Biqa.Ai /  6. "Mixing the east with the west" : cosmopolitan philology in Richard Burton's Translations from Camões /  7. Reading backward : the 1001 Nights and philological practice /  8. Andalusi "exceptionalism" /  9. The Convivencia Wars : decoding historiography's polemic with philology /  10. "In one of my body's gardens" : hearts in transformation in late Medieval Iberian passion devotions /  11. Arab musical influence on medieval Europe : a reassessment /  12. Sicilian poets in Seville : literary affinities across political boundaries /  13. Vidal Benvenist's Efer ve-Dinah between Hebrew and romance /  14. The shadow of Islam in Cervantes's "El Licenciado Vidriera" /  15. "The finest flowering" : poetry, history, and medieval Spain in the twenty-first century /  16. Boustrophedon : toward a literary theory of the Mediterranean /  Suzanne Conklin Akbari --  Sharon Kinoshita --  Simon Gaunt --  John Tolan --  Walid A. Saleh --  Paulo Lemos Horta --  Karla Mallette --  Ross Brann --  Ryan Szpiech --  Cynthia Robinson --  Dwight Reynolds --  William Granara --  David Wacks --  Leyla Rouhi --  María Rosa Menocal --  Karla Mallette. 
<br/><br/> "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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442663398 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Literature, Medieval--Arab influences.<br/>Comparative literature--Arabic and European.<br/>Comparative literature--European and Arabic.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN682  / .S436 2013