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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... intertexts,I propose torecover meanings that have been lost, obscured,or distorted (perhaps censored) inthe process ... Intertextuality to Interculturality AsI cross the borders between medieval.
... intertexts, I propose to recover meanings that have been lost, obscured, or distorted (perhaps censored) in the ... Intertextuality to Interculturality As I cross the borders between medieval Arabic and French literatures, I focus on the ...
... intertextuality means both interlinguistic, intertextual echoes (Chapters 2 and 3), as well as intercultural ones (Chapters 4 and 5). They are thus ordered in such a fashion as to follow literary and cultural intermixing from PREFACE xi.
... to Arabic literary and cultural traditions. My goal will hence be to recover the multiple Arabic intertextual resonances that regularly lie beneath the surface of medieval French textuality Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries 7.
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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 |
Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures Sahar Amer Predogled ni na voljo - 2013 |