Karla Mallette

European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean

Toward a New Philology and a Counter-Orientalism

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Produktbeschreibung

Mallette examines Orientalist philology in southern Europe produced between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth century. Focusing on Italy, Spain, and Malta, she conducts close comparative readings of a wide range of philological narratives to reveal the influences Arab and Islamic traditions have had on the development of modern European culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 145mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780812242416
• ISBN-10: 0812242416
• Artikelnr.: 28523992

Autorenporträt

Karla Mallette

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Scheherazade among the Philologists (Paris, 1704)
Chapter 2. Metempsychosis: Dante, Petrarch, and the Arab Middle Ages
Chapter 3. I nostri Saracini: Writing the History of the Arabs of Sicily
Chapter 4. The Ramparts of Europe: The Invention of the Maltese Language
Chapter 5. The Life and Times of Enrico Cerulli
Chapter 6. Amalgams: Emilio García Gómez (s. XX), Alvarus (s. IX), and
Philology after the Nation
Chapter 7. Scheherazade at Home (Baghdad, A.D. 803; London and Hollywood,
1939)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments