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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... and criticism. 2. Arabic literature—History and criticism. 3. Lesbians in literature. I. Title. PQ155.L47A44 2008 840.9'3526643—dc22 2008000401 CONTENTS NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION vii PREFACE ix CHAPTER oNE Crossing Copyright Page.
... CHAPTER oNE Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Same-Sex Love Between Women 1 CHAPTER TWO Crossing Linguistic Borders: Etienne de Fougeres's Lz'we des Manz'éres and Arabic Erotic Treatises 29 CHAPTER THREE ...
... chapters. We will redefine the very notion of “intertextuality” in the process. This poststructuralist notion—introduced by Julia Kristeva, based on her reading of Bakhtin's analysis of Dostoevsky's poetics, medieval farces, and ...
... Chapter 2), I proceed in Chapter 3 to examine some less explicit echoes between both traditions, such as the thematic parallels between three versions of the Yeie and Olive stories and the tale of Qamar al-Zaman and the Princess Boudour ...
... , medieval medicine and medieval science both paid relatively little attention to homosexuality (male or female) in the Middle Ages. After all, according to the dominant clerical teachings of the period, 2 CHAPTER ONE.
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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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