Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic LiteraturesUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1. mar. 2013 - 264 strani Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary texts of the medieval Arab Islamicate tradition, where sexuality was positioned at the very heart of religious piety. |
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... French and Arabic. I have kept citations in the original Arabic script to the minimum (for editorial necessity) and limited them to those sections when the Arabic text is essential to the analysis. I hope that this inclusion of Arabic ...
... Old French literary texts. My research reveals that it was often through the detour of Arabic textuality, through the recourse to thematic motifs and the evocation of Middle Eastern sociocultural traditions, that French narrators named ...
... Old French writings holds a specific meaning to its Western audience, and verti— cally because these same elements hint also at a literary corpus, a cultural tradition that precedes or is contemporary to the moment of French textual ...
... Old French texts.16 Throughout this study, medieval Arabic writings on sexuality will serve as a crucial basis for reading eroticism in a wide range of Old French texts. By juxtaposing medieval Arabic texts and medieval French works ...
Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures Sahar Amer. did not in fact obtain until then). His approach to ... Old French texts that we will be examining)?23 Critics continue to struggle over what to call expressions of ...
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Crossing Linguistic Borders Etienne de Fougèress Livre des Manières and Arabic Erotic Treatises | 29 |
Crossing Sartorial Lines Female SameSex Marriage in Yde et Olive and The Story of Qamar alZaman and Princess Boudour from the One Thousand ... | 50 |
Crossing the Lines of Friendship Jean Renarts Escoufle Saracen Silk and Intercultural Encounters | 88 |
Crossing Social and Cultural Borders Jean Renarts Escoufle and the Traditions of Zarf jawaris and Qaynas in the Islamicate World | 121 |
Beyond Orientalist Presuppositions | 161 |
Notes | 167 |
Bibliography | 217 |
Index | 239 |
Acknowledgments | 251 |
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Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures Sahar Amer Omejen predogled - 2008 |
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