Marco Polo and the encounter of east and west [electronic resource] / edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Amilcare Iannucci ; with the assistance of John Tulk.
Iannucci, Amilcare A.; Akbari, Suzanne Conklin.; Tulk, John.
2008
G370.P9 M37 2008eb
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Title
Marco Polo and the encounter of east and west [electronic resource] / edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Amilcare Iannucci ; with the assistance of John Tulk.
ISBN
9781442688582 (electronic bk.)
9780802099280
Publication Details
Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, c2008.
Language
English
Description
1 electronic resource (x, 338 p.) : ill.
Call Number
G370.P9 M37 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
915.04/2092
Summary
Few figures from history evoke such vivid Orientalist associations as Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer whose accounts of the 'Far East' sparked literary and cultural imaginations. The essays in Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West challenge what many scholars perceived to be an opposition of 'East' and 'West' in Polo's writings. These writers argue that Marco Polo's experiences along the Silk Road should instead be considered a fertile interaction of cultural exchange.The volume begins with detailed studies of Marco Polo's narrative in its many medieval forms (including French, Italian, and Latin versions). They place the text in its material and generic contexts, and situate Marco Polo's account within the conventions of travel literature and manuscript illumination. Other essays consider the appropriation of Marco Polo's narrative in adaptations, translation, and cinematic art. The concluding section presents historiographic and poetic accounts of the place of Marco Polo in the context of a global world literature.
Note
Few figures from history evoke such vivid Orientalist associations as Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer whose accounts of the 'Far East' sparked literary and cultural imaginations. The essays in Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West challenge what many scholars perceived to be an opposition of 'East' and 'West' in Polo's writings. These writers argue that Marco Polo's experiences along the Silk Road should instead be considered a fertile interaction of cultural exchange.The volume begins with detailed studies of Marco Polo's narrative in its many medieval forms (including French, Italian, and Latin versions). They place the text in its material and generic contexts, and situate Marco Polo's account within the conventions of travel literature and manuscript illumination. Other essays consider the appropriation of Marco Polo's narrative in adaptations, translation, and cinematic art. The concluding section presents historiographic and poetic accounts of the place of Marco Polo in the context of a global world literature.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-323) and index.
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Iannucci, Amilcare A.
Akbari, Suzanne Conklin.
Tulk, John.
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Introduction : East, west, and in-between / Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Text, image, and contradiction in the Devisement dou monde / Debra Higgs Strickland
Marco Polo's Le devisement dou monde and the tributary east / Sharon Kinoshita
Marco Polo's Devisement dou monde as a narcissistic trauma / Marion Steinicke
Currents and currency in Marco Polo's Devisement dou monde and The book of John Mandeville / Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Plucking hairs from the great Cham's beard : Marco Polo, Jan de Langhe, and Sir John Mandeville / John Larner
The world translated : Marco Polo's Le devisement dou monde, The book of Sir John Mandeville, and their medieval audiences / Suzanne M. Yeager
Calvino's rewriting of Marco Polo : from the 1960 screenplay to Invisible cities / Martin McLaughlin
From alterity to holism : cinematic depictions of Marco Polo and his Travels / Amilcare A. Iannucci and John Tulk
The perils of dichotomous thinking : a case of ebb and flow rather than east and west / Susan Whitfield
Marco Polo : meditations on intangible economy and vernacular imagination / Yunte Huang
Marco Polo, Chinese cultural identity, and an alternative model of east-west encounter / Longxi Zhang.

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