Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture

Herausgeber: Yermolenko, Galina I

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays gathered here examine the legacy of Roxolana, a sixteenth-century Ukrainian woman who, from harem slave, became legal wife and advisor of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The collection views Roxolana from Western and Eastern European perspectives, as source material is taken from England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Poland, and Ukraine. Also included are six European source texts, here translated into modern English for the first time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 632g
• ISBN-13: 9780754667612
• ISBN-10: 0754667618
• Artikelnr.: 35616493

Autorenporträt

Galina Yermolenko is Associate Professor of English at DeSales University. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Marquette University, and a Ph.D. in Germanic Philology from Simferopol State University, Ukraine.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Critical Essays
1: Roxolana in Europe 1
2: East versus West: Seraglio Queens, Politics, and Sexuality in Thomas Heywood's Fair Maid of the West, Parts I and II
3: The Tragedy of Roxolana in the Court of Charles II
4: Roxolana in German Baroque and Enlightenment Dramas
5: How a Turkish Empress Became a Champion of Ukraine
6: Roxolana's Memoirs as a Garden of Intertextual Delight
7: Roxolana in Turkish Literature: Re-Writing the Ever Elusive Woman of Power and Desire
2: Translations
8: Gonzalo de Illescas, The Second Part of the Pontifical and Catholic History (1606) 1
9: Lope de Vega, The Holy League (1603) 1
10: Prospero della Rovere Bonarelli, Soliman (1620) 1
11: Jean Desmares, Roxelana (1643) 1
12: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Giangir, or the Rejected Throne (1748) 1
13: Denys Sichynsky, Roksoliana
Historical Opera in Three Acts with a Prologue (1911) 1